1) Internalizationof the people's sovereign right and right to autonomy and self-rule, while
maintaining freedom, sovereignty, territorial integrity, national unity, independence and
dignity of Nepal.
2) Commitment to competitive multi-party democratic governance system, civil liberties,
fundamental rights, human rights, adult franchise, periodic elections, complete press
freedom, independent, impartial and competent judiciary and the concept of rule of law
and build a prosperous nation.
3) Resolution to a just society with protection and promotion of social and cultural solidarity,
co-existence, harmony, and unity in diversity, while ending all forms of discrimination
and oppression,and recalling sacrifice made from time to time by people for national
interest, democracy, progressive change the glorious history.
4) Constitution as the fundamental law of Nepal, and every person bound to observe it.
5) Nepal as an independent, indivisible, sovereign, secular, inclusive, democratic, socialism-
oriented, federal democratic republican state.
6) Safeguarding of the independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, nationality, freedom,
dignity of Nepal and of the rights of the Nepalese people, border security, economic
wellbeing and prosperity as the fundamental tenets of national interest; andany conduct
and act contrary to national interest being punishable.
7) Nepali language in the Devnagari script asthe official language of Nepal and all languages
spoken as the mother tongues in Nepal being the languages of the nation.
8) The Government of Nepal (GoN),within one year of the commencement of the
Constitution, is to constitute a Language Commission with a chairperson and members
comprising representation of the States.
9) The Language Commission is to recommendGoN on determination of the criteria to be
fulfilled for the recognition of the official language, measures to be adopted for the
protection, promotion and development of languages, the levels of development of mother
tongues on the potentiality of their use in education.
10) No citizen of Nepal is to be deprived of the right to obtain citizenship.
11) Provision of single federal citizenship with State identity.
12) Right of person acquiring citizenship by descent to obtain the citizenship certificate with
gender identity by the name of his or her mother or father.
13) Provision of the non-residential citizenship of Nepal for a person, who has acquired the
citizenship of a foreign country, has resided in a country other than a SAARC member
state, and who or whose father or mother, grandfather or grandmother was previously a
Nepalese citizen by decent or birth but subsequently acquireda foreign citizenship, thereby
entitling such person to economic, social and cultural rights in accordance with the
Federal law.
14) Various civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights guaranteed as fundamental
rights: rights to life with dignity, freedom, equality, communication, justice, property,
freedom ofreligion, information, privacy, language and culture, employment, labor,
clean environment, education , health care, food, housing,social justice, social security
and constitutional remedy, rights against exploitation, torture, preventive detention,
untouchability and discrimination andexile, and rights of women, children, Dalits, senior
citizens, consumers and victim of crime.
