{"id":409378,"date":"2025-05-21T11:58:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T06:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=409378"},"modified":"2025-05-21T14:31:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T08:46:37","slug":"dr-bishwanath-poudel-sworn-in-as-governor-of-nepal-rastra-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2025\/05\/21\/409378.html","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Bishwanath Poudel assumes office as Nepal Rastra Bank Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kathmandu:<\/strong> Dr. Bishwanath Poudel has officially taken office as the new Governor of Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) after being sworn in by Chief Justice Prakash Man Singh Raut.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-409388 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/Governor-assumes-office.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/Governor-assumes-office.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/Governor-assumes-office-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/Governor-assumes-office-1024x741.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/Governor-assumes-office-768x556.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The oath of office and secrecy was administered during a ceremony held at the Supreme Court earlier today.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-409383 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/safat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/safat.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/safat-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/safat-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Poudel, a seasoned economist, was appointed by the government following a cabinet meeting held yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>His appointment came upon the recommendation of a three-member selection committee led by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Paudel.<\/p>\n<p>With extensive experience in economic and monetary affairs, Dr. Poudel is expected to play a key role in steering Nepal\u2019s central banking institution, particularly amid ongoing challenges in the national economy and financial sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His appointment came upon the recommendation of a three-member selection committee led by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Paudel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":409388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,76],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-409378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409378"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409392,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409378\/revisions\/409392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409378"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=409378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}