> 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.Let me try to
> answer?this is one of the reason, I have recently
> found.
>
> Nepal is one of the poorest counries 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 president
> 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 investiment, after paying the tax, is
> hers) but even her neckless is the property of the
> country.
> British prime minister 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) Belgean 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 ears
> or in 316 lives. Ho la!]
>
> Appendix
> Nepali royal family is involved in various business.
> 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
>
> Courtsey: Mulyankan Monthly (Nov-Dec 2005)
> US dollar 1 = Rs 72
> Nepal has a writing system of giving comma after two
> digits except the last.