Nepali Community Organisations in Cyprus — NRNA, Nicosia Youth & the Consulate
The bodies running Cyprus's Nepali community: NRNA Cyprus, Nicosia Youth, Honorary Consul Ram Jeevan Panjiyar and the worker networks.
By Nepalese Events Editorial
Published: 2026-11-08T23:57:32.000000Z
Category: Guides
Cyprus's ~7,000+ strong Nepali community organises through a compact set of bodies — the ones that filed the workers' memorandum and run the festivals.
NRNA NCC Cyprus
The community's formal backbone — the body that coordinated November's workers-and-students memorandum to the consulate on social-security refunds, agency abuse and the NOC problem. Chair Dhata Nand Pandey's leadership has pushed the community's grievances to the formal channel — through the consulate to Kathmandu. For rights, papers and collective problems, this is the body.
Nicosia Youth
The newer community organiser — formalised its committee a year in and ran November's Shanti Shree Pariyar Tihar concert at Lakatamia Pavilion as its debut event (€25 incl food, island-wide buses). President Suraj Koirala's team is the one building the community's event calendar.
The Honorary Consulate
Nepal has no resident embassy on the island — Honorary Consul Dr. Ram Jeevan Panjiyar in Nicosia is the official anchor for consular matters and the channel to Kathmandu. He's been explicit about the community's problems growing: his line — "only when the community moves forward together can the rights of workers and students be protected" — is the community's operating principle.
The worker/student networks
The informal layer matters most here because domestic workers are scattered in private homes — the Facebook and WhatsApp groups are how isolated workers find each other, warn about households, and coordinate help. The district-level samaj networks and the island's Nepali restaurant/community spots (Nicosia, Limassol, Larnaca) are the in-person version.
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