Nepal, June 27 -- Women's ownership of land is on the rise after the government introduced revenue discounts on land transactions. According to the Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation, a 25 percent discount on registration fees is provided if the land is transferred in the name of a woman.

According to the Department of Land Management and Archive (DoLMA), there are currently 11,467,382 registered landowners across the country. Of them, 6,983,851 are male, accounting for 61 percent of the total.

Similarly, the number of female landowners stands at 4,483,531, which is 39 percent of the total. Data maintained by the DoLMA show that the number of land transactions in women's names has been increasing each year...