  The NOvA experiment is a long-baseline neutrino oscillation experiment
designed to measure electron neutrino appearance in a muon neutrino beam. It
consists of two finely segmented, liquid scintillator detectors at 14 mrad
off-axis in the NuMI beam.The NOvA Near Detector, located at Fermilab, provides
an excellent opportunity to study neutrino-nucleus interactions which are
important for the neutrino oscillation measurements. This talk will present one
of the first such measurements from the NOvA Near Detector: neutral current
coherent-$\pi^0$ production. Neutrinos can coherently interact with the target
nucleus via neutral current exchange and produce a single, forward $\pi^0$,
which is a background to the $\nu_e$ appearance measurement. This analysis
measures the coherent- $\pi^0$ kinematics and cross-section and compares it to
the model predictions. A data-driven method is developed to constrain the
neutral current resonance and deep-inelastic $\pi^0$ productions which are
background to this analysis.
