National Foundation for Development of Indigenous Nationalities Act, 2058 (2002).

This Act is enacted to provide for the establishment of National Foundation for Development of Indigenous Nationalities.
The objectives of the Foundation include: a) To make overall development of the indigenous nationalities by formulating and implementing programs relating to the social, educational, economic and cultural development and upliftment of indigenous nationalities; b) To preserve and promote the languages, scripts, cultures, arts, and histories of the indigenous nationalities; c) To preserve and promote the traditional knowledge, skills, technologies and special knowledge of the indigenous nationalities and to provide assistance in its vocational use; d) To cause the indigenous nationalities to be participate in the mainstream of overall national development of the country by maintaining a good relation, goodwill and harmony between different indigenous groups, castes, tribes and religious communities of Nepal; and e) To provide assistance in building an equitable society by making social, economic, religious and cultural development and upliftment of indigenous nationalities.