Current Status for the Inclusive Neutral Current ${\pi }^0$ production Cross Section Measurement with the NOvA Near Detector

NOvA (NuMI Off-axis {\nu}e Appearance) experiment is designed to study long-baseline neutrino oscillations using two detectors, the Near Detector (ND) at Fermilab and the Far Detector (FD) at a distance 810 km in Northern Minnesota. NOvA looks for the ${\nu }_e$ appearance at the FD using a narrow band ${\nu }_{\mu }$ beam peaked at 2 GeV in energy. Neutral Current (NC) interactions with a ${\pi }^0$ in the final state represent the main background in the ${\nu }_e$ appearance measurement. The ${\pi }^0$ decay into two photons can fake the ${\nu }_e$ appearance signal in two ways either two photon showers merge together or one of the two photons may escape the detection. Therefore, a complete understanding of ${\nu }_{\mu }$ induced NC interactions with ${\pi }^0$ in the final state is very important. It will also help in reducing the background uncertainties for current and future long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiments. We present here the current status of the analysis related to the inclusive NC ${\pi }^0$ production cross section measurement with the NOvA ND.