The Regional Communication Resources Centre, Nepalgunj organised a discussion programme on the legal rights of women on property under the gender equality programme launched with the cooperation of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

The participants at the discussion programme expressed the view that amendment being made by the 20th session of Parliament in the Civil Code Act providing sons and daughters equal share on paternal property was very meaningful.

They stressed the need to launch another movement to abolish the provision being made in the Civil Code Act for the daughters to return their share of property after their marriage

The participants expressed the view that an awareness programme should be launched at the village level to ascertain the genuine rights of the daughters in order to resolve the issues concerning property.

On the occasion president of Banke district unit of Saathi Bhawani Rana had presented a working paper on the impact of the Civil Code 11th Amendment Act on rights of the women on paternal property. Commenting on the working paper, central vice president of the Nepal Bar Association Govinda Bandi said that even though amendment had been made in the Civil Code Act on the basis of the decision of the Supreme Court as well as through extensive discussions, the Act was still inadequate to establish the property rights of the women.

Social workers Narbada Sharma, Sarita Gyawali and Bimala Sharma, teachers Kiran Acharya and Rakshya Basyal, advocates Krishna Pokherel and Suresh Poudel, journalists Pannalal Gupta, Somnath Lamichane and Jhalak Gaire, and Informal Sector Service Centre regional chief Bhola Mahat also expressed their views.

At the function chaired by Federation of Nepalese Journalists Banke district president Niraj Kumar Gautam, convenor of the regional communications resource center Rajanshree Dhatkuli threw light on the importance of the discussion programme.