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| Biswo | Posted
on 25-May-04 10:32 PM
Royal Palace is doing it patak patak. Look at the following news: . http://newsofnepal.com/ffstory.asp?sn=6 --- I was struck by the comment: "ain bamojim rakam maatra dedh barshamaa 93 crore pathaaiyeko ho, tyas bahek aru ta kati chha kati". So, just how much this palace is taking from our national coffer? Do we have a right to know? -- With the news of new purchases of weapons from India and East European countries trickling in, [I had read elsewhere Indian aviation related sales is as much as 3 billion Rs], and no one supervising these deals except for the venal king and his top lieutenants, the lure of commission for these people is way more than any urge to bring peace to our country rightnow. This commission maafia in arm dealing can be very dangerous. In a lot of African countries, the challenge to peace efforts comes primarily from those people who profit by arm sales commission. -- Meanwhile, let's work hard ,be successful wherever we are and hope that one day we will contribute to the nation building effort of those sincere people in Nepal who will lead our nation tomorrow. |
| An Indun Poet | Posted
on 26-May-04 12:19 AM
Lets hang these G. Shah and the family. |
| Epitome | Posted
on 26-May-04 08:13 AM
Yes dudes, and make sights like these a common feature in every nooks and corners 
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| rbaral | Posted
on 26-May-04 08:25 AM
Biswo ji As far as the palace's allocation of budget, I would consider it a petty thing, compared to the irrecoverable loss of lives caused by instability almost everyday. Regarding buying arms, you have a good point. The worst thing is, the army will eventually be a 'medium' for Maoists to get hold of the newly purchased weapons. Maoists will only have to initiate a raid to a military cache, and our armymen will quietly comply. We have witnessed that in Ghorahi. Too sad. How about strengthening the police instead of repeatedly reinforcing the army? |
| Biswo | Posted
on 26-May-04 11:47 AM
AIP and epitome: tks for contributing your views. rbaralji: >As far as the palace's allocation of budget, > I would consider it a petty thing, > compared to the irrecoverable loss >of lives caused by instability almost > everyday. I am not so sure. It seems to me we can do a lot of things with this much rupees. I have seen that people drink so dirty water in Noonthalaa-Lukla road that we won't drink even in the direst condition. There are so many widows, and orphans in this war that there is always a place in need of funding and good will. I read in a paper some days ago that a pregnant lady , after not getting food for three days in row, first killed her 3-years old daughter and then committed suicide. I read in a paper a few days ago that a man killed all his family in Birgunj and then committed suicide, because he owed a few thousands of rupees and had no way to pay that back. In a country of that much poverty, a king takes so much money, buys expensive cars, organizes picnic which included expensive foreign wines in palaces for 300+ people for apparently no purpose: to me, this sounds as egregious as other things too. But the worst thing is lack of transparency: just how much is he taking? This king has courage to raise questions about the integrity of others, then what stops him from coming clean about himself? > The worst thing is, the army will eventually >be a 'medium' for Maoists to get hold of > the newly purchased weapons. Yes. Even Mao once said that the ' proletarian' class doesn't have to worry about arms. They will snatch them from the capitalist's armies. These modern weapons will somehow end up in the hands of the Maoists too, unless the war is too lopsided. I am not sure if I agree about equipping police. It is the nature of state, ie the rulers, that matters most. The moral sureness of people in authority is more important than anything in solving the national problems. |
| HahooGuru | Posted
on 26-May-04 11:52 AM
Political parties in Nepal including Maoists deserve the blames that George Bush Makes on Kerry: That is they are on both sides: flip flap and then, flop. They speak all sides, and end on that side that offers opportunity, and they don't know what they want. HG |
| Prem Charo | Posted
on 26-May-04 07:44 PM
How much was he spending per year ?? 
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| Biswo | Posted
on 26-May-04 11:12 PM
Premachro: King Birendra's royal household budget before he died was 9 crore something per year. His personal sallary was 4 Lakh per month(tax free). His wife and his son also had a monthly salary in six figures. His relatives, including the daughters of Dhirendra Shah, all got some form of sallary even though they were kids. The king also had right over a lot of palaces strewn around the nation. He was also the owner of more than 5K land in Nagarjun. Similarly, the king used to get money for the purpose of marrying his son/daughter, educating them abroad etc. Hence, essentially his all needs were taken care of. A warden of Royal Chitwan National Park once told me all confiscated wild life remains (including rhino's horn, tiger's skins etc. And yea, if you take a trip to New York's Chinatown, you would be able to trace some of rhino horns sold as aphrodisiac) were shipped to the royal palace. Similarly, according to one ex-deputy governor's tale, all gold confiscated in TIA were first stored in Rashtra Bank, but the royals could buy as much as they wanted in about 20 Rupees per tolas (about 11 gram), when the price was more than 1 thousand rupees a tolaa in KTM's market. I don't know about more recent arrangements. Also, his relatives often landed plum industrial deals: be it regarding opening five star hotels, joint venture cigarette factory and beer factories, etc. etc. Normally, in all third world countries, alcohol factories and cigarette factories are considered 'guarantee profit'industries and it takes considerable blessing from powerful ones to open such factories. For example: in China, you need to be very close to the communist leaders etc. In Nepal, to open such factories, it is very important that you are either close to the royals or you are one of them. These are the known knowns. We don't know about unknown unknowns. Will you please kindly help us? |
| mahakaal | Posted
on 27-May-04 12:18 AM
guy biswo all the time i see you write is against monarchy against monarchy .what do you think that makes youa better democratic and an educated citizen of the country. whatever salary the king gets thats known by you now tellll the people how much girija makes how much makune makes???????????? kiNg got some salary that was allotted to him how much does other leaders make. most people who write here i guesss are abroad h ow many of you are the children of golcha or some big business man........how many of your freaking fathers are in the govt service and how much your dad make and how all of you came abroad .dont tell me all of you came in scholarship. freaking blme the king amd you feeel he is theone and only casue of the downfalll of nepal.sarkari jagire ko ghar dekheko chainas land dekheko chainas ,7-8 thousand talab khane ko chora bidesh padnu hune,raja ko chora ko education ko chai accoutn chaine. epitome or wahtever you somewhere abroad so you want those scenes ....i hope you and your dad both havent paid any tax to feeel that the things that are being destryoed comes from taxes that people pay......... |
| Epitome | Posted
on 27-May-04 05:26 AM
Mahakal, I admire your patriotic feeling, however you got me wrong bro. Please, go back once again to my lines and you know my true feeling, and for your information even abroad, I am paying taxes monthy to the Nepalese govt. Regarding Biswo's antimonarchist comment, beg spare us of those venom, coz, too much of anything is not good. We appreciate your dislike and obvious you have every right to express it, but don,t you think too much negative sometime falls back on wrong side of the bed. |