Billion Dollar man

Friday, December 23, 2005

Billion Dollar man

King Gyanendra is known well for his monarchical regime and equally well for his boundless businesses. Recently, Nepal Blog Discovery received an email message about His Majesty's financial status and we later on found that many people had received the same email. So we decided to put it on the blog for you all to read, analyze and comment on it. So the email goes like this:

Email Content

How much money does Nepali king earn?

Dear Nepali citizens and foreign lovers of Nepal, You might be wondering why Nepal is still poor when its countries of equal economic status has reached the sky with booming economic development.
Nepal is one of the poorest countries of the world but Nepal's king is the highest paid king of the world.

The income of Nepali king Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev is:
2,426 times higher than that of Chinese president
318 times higher than that of Indian president
301 times higher than that of Pakistani president
173 times higher than that of Russian president
57 times higher than that of French president
15 times higher than that of British prime minister
10 times higher than that of American president
Netherlands queen's income: Rs. 22,32,00,000 (per capita income Rs 17,25,120)
American president earns Rs. 3,24,00,000 (1,15,20,000 returns in tax), (per capita income Rs 25,24,320)
Japanese king earns Rs. 22,23,52,000 (per capita income Rs.24, 15,600)
Chinese president earns Rs. 1,35,000 (per capita income Rs 67,680)
Indian president earns Rs. 10,11,000 (per capita income Rs 34,560)
French president earns Rs 57,96,000 (per capita income Rs 15,84,000)
Pakistani president earns (after the coup) Rs 10,94,000 (per capita income 29,520)
British Queen does not get any salary from the state. She has a property of Rs 30,24,00,00,000 (the profit of investment, after paying the tax, is hers) but even her necklace is the property of the country.
British president earns Rs 2,19,58,000 (per capita income is Rs 18,16,200)
Russian president earns Rs 19,03,000 (per capita income is Rs 1,54,000)
Belgian king receives salary as a civil servant (per capita income is Rs 16,74,000)

And,
Nepali king earns Rs 61,91,00,000 (per capita income is Rs 16,560=US$ 230)
[This means the Nepali king earns Rs. 19,878 times higher than a citizen. Last year it was 37,385 times higher. Thus a citizen can earn as much as the king earns in a year only after working for 19,000 years or in 316 lives.]

Appendix
Nepali royal family is involved in various businesses.
A king does not have to pay tax according to Nepal's constitution.
The present king has inherited the property of earlier king's family and nobody knows how much it is.
This king has taken Rs 1,06,45,00,000 in past three years for his small family

Courtesy: Surya Thapa, Mulyankan Monthly (Nov-Dec 2005)
US dollar 1 = Rs 72

Nepal Blog Discovery does not take any responsibility of the content of the article. It has just been published for the reader to know; find out about its truth; comment and let others know about their findings or views.

Billion Dollar man posted by Pradeep Chand @ 7:04 PM

Comments:

the belgian monarchy is with the nepali the most evil, in the 1880s, king leopold, the demon, who is burning in hell, started a colonial project ion Congo that klilled possibly 17 million people, and caused disases that spread and killed a million in the car and uganda, and killed a million in french congo, by making it adopt it's m,odel of colonialism, the belgian mopnarchy should be jailed, for heredirtary crimes

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Anonymous : 6:52 PM

If this all is true, why not to snatch all his property and make ordinary citizen to this fox! This century is of people.

Hey stand up!!!

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Anonymous : 6:35 AM

If this all is true, why not to snatch all his property and make ordinary citizen to this fox! This century is of people.

Hey stand up!!!

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Mani : 6:36 AM

If this all is true, why not to snatch all his property and make ordinary citizen to this fox! This century is of people.

Hey stand up!!!

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democratic_republic : 9:11 AM

Yeah I guess politically active monarchy just not an option now. Unlike in Belgium, the king before the current one is very well respected.

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Pradeep Chand : 1:47 AM

i know we nepalese are a bunch of *uc*ing gullible people

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Anonymous : 11:12 AM

Man, this is pathetic....Gyane should feel ashamed of himself for getting so much for doing nothing.

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Anonymous : 12:06 AM

For a king to earn this much is not a big deal. It is not the property that he has earned just by cheating the nation. No king in the history and nor the present king have cheated the nation to make their earning. Was not it who gave him all those powers and the property? Does the reduction in the earning of king means making the people rich?had this been the fact then am pretty sure that king would have left all the property to the people. People have all the way and all the time just gone after the king...have we ever thought of the people who have been going with a huge property,dacoits,smugglers,,,i bet they are having more property than the king but under the cover...so check it out and you will realize that u r running after the crow just searching for your that is attached in ur head...have you ever thiught that u have been fooled...THINK TWICE....!!!CHEERS...!!!

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Anonymous : 10:10 AM

It is just an illusion. He has no such a high income. Howevwer, he has higher.

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