According to Dr Ram Saran Mahat’s White Paper presented in parliament today, the recipients of the king-headed government’s largesse are:

• National Federation of Nepalese Journalists (Jasuda Pradhan) Rs. 1,26,000

• National Federation of Nepalese Journalists (Jasuda Pradhan) Rs. 4,95,000

• National Federation of Nepalese Journalists (Nirodh Raj Pandey) Rs. 10,00,000

• Nepal Cable Television Sangh (Harisaran Lamichhane) Rs. 2,00,000

• National Federation of Nepalese Journalists (Yagya Dhakal) Rs. 20,000

• Association of Literary Journalists (Radheshyam Lekali) Rs. 2,00,000

• Nepal Film Artistes Association (Ramesh Budathoki) Rs 3,00,000

• National Press Club Nepal (Ram Krishna Karmacharya) Rs. 20,000

• Media for Socio-Economic Awareness (Ojaswi Gautam) Rs. 30,000

• Information Department Rs. 1,25,000

• Rastriya Samachar Samiti Rs. 6,00,000

• Nepal Buddhijivi Avam Samparka Manch (Shree Krishna Poudel) Rs. 60,000

• Jayanti KC (Janakpur) Rs. 10,000

• Manoj Singh (Jaleswor) Rs. 10,000

• Ram Kishun Yadav (Rajbiraj) Rs. 10,000

• Suman Karki (Itahari) Rs. 10,000

• Bishnu Kumar Das Rs. 10,000

• Sambhu Dahal (Ramkot) Rs. 10,000

• Mahendra Thapa (Bhojpur) Rs. 13,000

• Mohan Shrestha (Gorkha) Rs. 17,000