Stakeholders
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Manage No, Sortation, Country, Writer ,Date, Copyright Manage No SS00000196 Stakeholder Category Organization Country Nepal Name of Representative Tulasi Diwasa
| Description | Nepali Folklore Society (NFS) was established in 1995 as a non-profit academic organisation to promote folklore and folk life studies in the country. The Society has established a mode of folklore studies, disseminated the Nepali concepts of folklore studies and established wider contacts with the folklore societies and scholars from both within the country and abroad. As part of the same process of establishing a wider forum for folklore studies the Society has organized First International Folklore Congress in Kathmandu in 2001, Second International Folklore Congress in Kathmandu in 2003, Third International Folklore Congress in Kathmandu in 2009, Fourth International Folklore Congress in Kathmandu in 2012 and a National Folklore Congress in Kathmandu in 2006. The society collects materials related to folk culture and organizes workshops for the promotion and safeguarding of folklore. They mention that the intangible cultural heritage of Nepal is very much in practice today and not in threat of being extinct and the main responsibility that people have is to be aware of these cultures which are possible only by the dissemination of the documented knowledge. | ||
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| Phone(Office) | 977-1-5260090/ 977-1-4410706 | ||
| tdiwasa@gmail.com; tdiwasa@yahoo.com | |||
| Address | P.O Box 3326, Kathmandu, Nepal | ||