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[jimbo1962]

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[DPris]

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[ddean]

Originally posted by jimbo1962
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RE pay for the kamis,
Bill says:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=2268908#post2268908
".....Yangdu's next younger sister and a woman who squeezes a 50 paisa coin so hard before she lets go of it you can hear the king screaming in the palace, gave me hell recently telling me Pala and I were spoiling the kamis by paying them too much. I asked her how much Pala was paying and she said, 20,000 NC per month on the average. That's the equivalent of about $250 USD and the news made me very proud of old Pala. Hell of a guy......"

And then there's the BirGorkha social care plan on top of that:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=213014
"We have paid all Bura's medical expenses and will continue to do so and since he can't produce anything (it's a piece work payment plan at BirGorkha) we have put him on a salary and it will stay that way until he is able to work again -- regardless of how long that might be. Any excess money that may not be needed for Bura goes into the BirGorkha Social Services fund to be used for other kamis & their families who might need health care or face other disasters."

In terms of the local standards of living,
and in comparison to pay & benefits most of us here get,
they aren't doing so bad.

And how many of us could support a family of some 20 people:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=192590
"At his small home he has living with him TWO wives, TWO mothers in law, mother, maybe ten kids and a couple of nephews, nieces, and may a cousin or two -- 20 people in all. And it's his earnings at BirGorkha plus the few vegetables they can grow and the dozen or so chickens they keep that feed them all. He's GOT to be old reliable or those 20 folks will go hungry."