Ratneshwar Lal Kayastha (born 3 May 1944) is a Nepalese politician and former

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of Province No. 2. He was appointed as a governor of Province No. 2 by the

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on 17 January 2018. He served as a Governor of Province No. 2 from 19 January 2018 to 03 November 2019. Earlier, he was the Secretary at

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and Director General at Department of Irrigation, Nepal. Kayastha began his political career with

Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal The Federal Socialist Forum, Nepal ( ne, संघीय समाजवादी फोरम, नेपाल; abbreviated FSFN) was a democratic socialist political party in Nepal. The party was formed on 15 June 2015 from the merger of the Ma ...

in the 2004.

Early life and education

Ratneshwar Lal Kayastha was born at

Suga Bhawani Suga Bhawani is a Village development committee (Nepal), village development committee in Mahottari District in the Janakpur Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 4527 people living in 726 indivi ...

(now

Jaleshwar Jaleshwar ( ne, जलेश्वर) is a municipality in Janakpur Zone, Nepal, and the headquarters of Mahottari District of Madhesh Province in Nepal. It is located in the Terai, on the border with India at Bhitthamore, Bihar, and has a Cu ...

), Mahottari on 3 May 1944 to Lal Kishore Lal & Achakmani Devi. His father was a secondary level Teacher. He was passed

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(SLC) in 1st division from Laxmi Chand Murarka Higher Secondary School in Jaleshwar and earned an Intermediates degree with Science from

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. He further studied Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech.) from the same college and later he moved to

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and

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for higher education degree.

Civil service career

Kayastha joined Civil services of Nepal as an

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in 1964.

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Living people 1944 births Nepalese politicians IIT Kharagpur alumni Alumni of Imperial College London People from Mahottari District Governors of Madhesh Province Tri-Chandra College alumni {{Province2NP-politician-stub

Early life and education

Civil service career

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