The Toastmasters movement in Nepal is growing, with the addi­tion of six new Clubs— Professionals Toast­masters Club, Founders Toastmasters Club, Gan­daki Toastmasters Club, Pokhara Toastmasters Club, Dharan Toastmas­ters Club, and Banesh­wor Toastmasters Club. There are now 18 Toastmasters clubs in Nepal with over 500 members.

 

Similarly, Nepali Toastmasters are also gaining international exposure. Dis­tinguished Toastmaster Ranjit Acharya has now been elected in Top 3 Lead­ership position of District 41, which comprises India (North India, Delhi, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh), Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan. He will now be working as the Club Growth Direc­tor and oversee growth of clubs in the entire district, which has a total of 214 clubs until now. This year the District conference “ORATION-2019” was held at Kolkata where Nepali Toastmaster contestants participated in different speech contests.

 

Alfa M. Shakya from KUSOM Toast­masters Club won first runner up award in International Speech Contest, the highest award for a Nepali Toastmaster thus far. Asira Khanal from the Himalaya Toastmaster Club won the second run­ner up in Speech Evaluation Contest.

 

Now, Division ‘A’ Nepal is under the leadership of Distinguished Toastmas­ter Suman Shakya. Twelve more clubs are planned in Nepal this term ( July 2019-June 2020), taking the country total to 30.