Kalpana_Bista
Kalpana Bista
Former Minister of Nepal
Kalpana Bista (15 April 1905 – 11 June 2001) was the first female minister of education of Nepal in 1978.
She was born in Kathmandu to an aristocratic family in the Rana Dynasty.[1] Bista was appointed by late King Birendra of Nepal and late Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa as the minister of education as well as the member of the Office of the secretariat and parliament on multiple occasions.[2][3][4][5][6][7]
She was also appointed as a lifetime member of the child welfare committee of the state of Uttarakhand in India.[8]