National Priority Industries

  1.  Agro and Foresty-based industries.
  2. Engineering Industry (Producing Agricultural and Industrial Machine).
  3. Indusry Manufacturing Fuel Saving or Pollution Control Devices.
  4. Solid Water Proceessing Industry.
  5. Road, Bridge, Tunnel, Ropeway and Flying Bridge Constructing and Oerating Industry and Trolley Bus and Train Manufacturing and Operation Industry.
  6. Hospital and Nursing Home (Only outside the Kathmandu Valley).
  7. Industries Producing Ayurevedic, Homeopathic, and other Traditional Medicine, and industries Producing Crutch, Seat Belt, Wheel chair, Stretcher and Stick and so on to be used in aid of the disabled and orthopaedic.
  8. Cold Storage installed for the storage of Fruit and Vegetables.

     

Industries not to be granted permission for making foreign investment

Following industries are not granted permission for foreign investment however perimission may be granted for the transfer of technology in such industries.

Part (A)

  1. Cottage Industries
  2. Personal Service Business (Business such as Hair Cutting, Beauty Parlour, Tailoring, Driving Training, etc)
  3. Arms and Ammunition Industries.
  4. Explosives, Gunpower.
  5. Industries related to Raio-Active Materials.
  6. Real Estate Business (Excluding Construction Industries).
  7. Motion Pictures Business (Produced in national languages and the language of the nation).
  8. Security Printing.
  9. Currencies and Coinage business.

Part (B)

  1. Retail Business.
  2. Travel Agency.
  3. Trekking Agency
  4. Water Rafting.
  5. Pony Trekking.
  6. Horse Riding.
  7. Cigarette, Bidi (Tobacco), Alcohol (exluding those exporting more than 90%)
  8. Internal Courier Service.
  9. Automic Energy.
  10. Tourist Lodging.
  11. Poultry Farming.
  12. Fisheries.
  13. Bee-Keeping.
  14. Consultancy Services such as Management. Accounting, Engineering and Legal Services.