Nepal Medical Councilनेपाल मेडिकल काउन्सिल

What does it do?

• “Quality control of Medical Education of the country” nmc.org.np History and Information, 'major functions ... as per NMC Act'
• “Quality control of Health Services of the Country” nmc.org.np History and Information
• “Disciplinary action for breaching the Ethical/Standard Health Care Practice” nmc.org.np History and Information
• Grants recognition to medical colleges and sets and reviews curriculum, admission and examination standards; the Government must consult the Council before approving a new medical college. giwmscdnone.gov.np NMC Act 2020, s.7क(1)(क)-(ख) and s.7क(2)

Which law set it up?

What the law says is summarised with section numbers, not quoted, because text copied from the official PDFs is not reliable.

Law

Nepal Medical Council Act, 1964नेपाल मेडिकल काउन्सिल ऐन, २०२०

Section

Section 3(1) (काउन्सिलको स्थापना); s.3(2) makes it an autonomous body corporate

Official text

lawcommission.gov.np

History

“This conference passed a resolution and recommended to then His Majesty's Government to establish Nepal Medical Council under an Act of Nepal Medical Council, which came into reality on 16th Falgun, 2020 BS (28th Feb, 1964 AD).” nmc.org.np History and Information

Who leads it and who oversees it?

Head

Prof. Dhundi Raj Paudel, Chairperson, Nepal Medical Council nmc.org.np Checked 2026-10-16

Falls under

No supervising ministry is named in the Act text read (no 'मन्त्रालय' provision found) or on the pages fetched. The Chair is nominated by the Government of Nepal (s.4(क)).

Website

nmc.org.np

What could we not establish?

• The Executive Committee page loads its list by script and showed no names; the head comes only from the signed Chairperson's message page.कार्यकारी समितिको पृष्ठले सूची स्क्रिप्टबाट लोड गर्छ र नामहरू देखिएनन्; प्रमुखको नाम हस्ताक्षरसहितको अध्यक्षको सन्देश पृष्ठबाट मात्र लिइएको हो।
• The history page's registration figures are as of 31 December 2022 and were not used.इतिहास पृष्ठका दर्तासम्बन्धी तथ्याङ्क ३१ डिसेम्बर २०२२ सम्मका हुन् र यहाँ प्रयोग गरिएका छैनन्।