National Sports Council (Nepal)

The National sports council (राष्ट्रिय खेलकुद परिषद) of Nepal (or NSC) is the governmental authentic sports organization of Nepal. There are more than 123 sports related association and 6 federation are affiliated under it. It has the motto "sports for the health, sports for the nation". Its falls under Ministry of Youth and Sports. And the minister is official chairman of the council. Current chairman is Hon. Biraj Bhakta Shrestha whereas vice chairman is Shiva Koirala "Jwala". Tanka Lal Ghising is a member secretary of National Sports Council.

Nepal participates in Olympic Games/Paralympic Games, Asian Games/Asian Para Games and South Asian Games through Nepal Olympic committee (NOC) & National Paralympic Committee Nepal. NOC is a member of National Sports Council and also itself a sport regulatory body in Nepal. It started organizing national level sport meet since 1959. All Nepal Football Association, Cricket Association of Nepal, Nepal Athletics Association, Nepal Basketball Association Nepal Volleyball Association, Nepal Taekwondo Association and Nepal Karate Federation are governing body of popular sports in Nepal. Nepal Elephant Game Association is the governing body for the sport Elephant polo which hosted 'World Cup Elephant Polo" in Nepal.


 * Nepal National Martial Arts Games Confederation
 * Nepal Full Contact Karate Federation
 * Nepal Shotokan Karate Federation
 * Nepal Goju-Ryu Karate Federation
 * Mountain Sports Federation - Nepal