Mahabir Pun’s unconventional push to build Nepal’s newest ministry from the ground up

With no legal framework and only a skeleton staff, Nepal’s newest ministry is taking shape under a minister whose unconventional methods are attracting as much attention as his ambitions.

Nepal’s newly created Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation is still struggling to put together its basic institutional structure and legal framework. At the same time, its minister, Mahabir Pun, has once again become the centre of attention for an unconventional working style that is as unusual as it is divisive.