This Act is enacted to provide for the establishment of National Foundation for Development of Indigenous Nationalities. The objectives of the Foundation include: a) To make overall development of the indigenous nationalities by formulating and implementing programs relating to the social, educational, economic and cultural development and upliftment of indigenous nationalities; b) To preserve and promote the languages, scripts, cultures, arts, and histories of the indigenous nationalities; c) To preserve and promote the traditional knowledge, skills, technologies and special knowledge of the indigenous nationalities and to provide assistance in its vocational use; d) To cause the indigenous nationalities to be participate in the mainstream of overall national development of the country by maintaining a good relation, goodwill and harmony between different indigenous groups, castes, tribes and religious communities of Nepal; and e) To provide assistance in building an equitable society by making social, economic, religious and cultural development and upliftment of indigenous nationalities.
Непал · 2002-02-07