In order to attain the objectives set by the Plan the following major policies will be adopted:

1. To prepare a structural and legal base for the formation of "Federal Nepal", in a new form.
2. By adopting a market economy, in general, the policy of welfareoriented economic development through government, cooperatives and the private sector, will be followed.
3. Maximum utilization and mobilization of the overall physical and human-made assets of the State will be made, by preparing their objective records.
4. The macro economic framework will be made socially inclusive through engendering. Moreover, government mechanisms will be gender mainstreamed.
5. The process of identification of the people living below the poverty line will be initiated and economic and social policies based on social justice, economic growth and equitable distribution will be formulated, by focusing development efforts for poverty alleviation.
6. Respecting the contribution of subsistence households to the national economy, emphasis will be laid on their development.
7. Reconstruction and rehabilitation of damaged or demolished physical infrastructures during the conflicts will be carried out.
8. Arrangement for the rehabilitation and re-integration of, and immediate relief for the individuals, families and communities affected by the conflict will be made.
9. Relief including waiving of interests on credits for small farmers and small cottage entrepreneurs affected by natural disasters and conflicts will be provided.
10. Appropriate programs will be conducted in view of the features of diverse geographical conditions of the Terai, Hills and Mountains.
11. Adopting the Agriculture Perspective Plan as a principal policy for the development of agriculture, the production and productivity will be increased through the government, cooperatives and the private sector by modernizing the agriculture sector and using appropriate technology. Moreover, agriculture will be made the main basis of development and other sectoral policies will be made agriculture friendly.
12. By preparing a base for scientific reforms and managing land reforms, emphasis will be laid on the economic and social upliftment of agricultural workers, freed Kamaiyas, and landless squatters.
13. To create an environment to make investments in productive sectors by consolidating the savings of the community through cooperatives.
14. High priority will be accorded to agriculture, hydroelectricity, tourism, information and communication, science and technology, physical infrastructure and HRD.
15. Programs in the modern sectors of the economy including industry, banking and financial business, transport and communication, will be conducted with importance.
16. Nepal diplomatic missions abroad will be made to perform works on foreign trade, development cooperation, labor management, and tourism promotion with priority.
17. Special priority will be accorded to quantitative and qualitative tourism development. To this end, identification, improvement and development of geographical diversity and historic, religious and cultural areas will be carried out.
18. Cheap, convenient and effective services will be provided, by making improvements in the management of corporations responsible for delivering services to the people.
19. Corruption and red tapism will be abolished and transparency and good governance will be enhanced. For this, existing mechanisms will be strengthened with necessary changes.
20. Action plan for democratization, formation of a national and inclusive character, determination of appropriate number and structure and training, inculcating human rights values for the Nepal Army implemented and formulated.
21. Maoist combatants staying in the camps will gradually be adjusted and rehabilitated.
22. The participation of women will be expanded in all the walks of national life and various organs of the State. Necessary actions will be taken for the proportional representation of the Adibasi Janajatis, Madhesis, Dalits, the deprived groups and people with disability, and people of backward areas.
23. Education, health and employment will be more forward, as rightsbased development programs.
24. Special emphasis will be laid on quality, employment-oriented, vocational and technical education, within the access of the common people. Government budget and involvement will be enhanced in literacy campaigns and informal education.
25. The policy of community health will be adopted by increasing the investment in rural health, in order to make health for all easy and convenient. In addition, emphasis will be given to drinking water and sanitation.
26. Perspective Population Action Plan will be gradually implemented effectively for population management.
27. The coordination among sectoral ministries and programs will be made more effective. Completed projects will be made more useful through repair and maintenance. New projects will be formulated, based on regional balance.
28. Policy to promote innovations will be adopted for industrial and business infrastructure development, private sector development and trade and export promotion.
29. The private sector will be developed by giving emphasis on the enhancement of the competitive culture, entrepreneurial development, and increase in productivity, and so on.
30. Assistance will be provided for creating the necessary security, in order to continue to increase domestic and foreign investments in the country.
31. Domestic and foreign investments will be promoted for the development of the economic sector of the country. But in certain sectors, domestic investment will be especially encouraged.
32. Economic activities will be geared to enhance formal and informal sector employment, national capital formation, promotion of economic equality and economic development contribution will be favored.
33. Opportunities will be provided for self employment and employment for youths, particularly those affected by the conflict. In addition, remittances will be directed towards the productive sectors by making foreign employment well managed.
34. The rights of the consumers will be protected by removing drawbacks in the public distribution system.
35. Local level service delivery and development of construction works will be devolved to the local bodies by clearly demarcating the responsibility between the central and the local levels. Accordingly appropriate management of the fiscal system, local mechanism and human resources, will be done.
36. Special targeted policies will be brought out, by preparing the estimates for food security and socio-economic empowerment of the deprived people, Dalits, Adibasi Janajatis, Madhesis, backward classes, people with disability, freed Kamaiyas and laborers.
37. Supply system will be regularized for making the essential goods and services for the people easily available and affordable. Inflation will be controlled with monitoring.
38. Participatory policy will be adopted for sustainable development, management and utilization of forest area.
39. Provisions of the United Nations and other international declarations endorsed by Nepal including Human Rights, will be enforced with effectively.
40. The concept of proportional development will be promoted by implementing special programs including social security for the development of the groups, communities and regions pushed backwards. Concrete programs will be launched for the development of remote and backward regions, and special programs and mechanisms will be made for the development of the Karnali region.
41. All the discriminations related to religion, language, and culture will be abolished completely. Special arrangements will be made for the protection, promotion and development of the languages and cultures of all the castes and janajatis.
42. The skills and capital of the immigrant Nepalese will be encouraged to invest in Nepal along with the protection and promotion of their welfare by the State.
43. NGOs will be taken as drivers and partners of development.
44. Development will gradually be engendered.