However, with Nepal teetering on the verge of an economic collapse and asking for foreign assistance to bail out the economy, it remains to be seen if parliament or the Maoists would approve spending large sums for the royal family's treatment abroad. In the last four years, after the king began controlling the government, the budget for the royal family was hiked by over six times. Though in the fiscal 2001-02, the government had allocated Nepali Rs.126.3 million for the palace, after seizing direct control last year, King Gyanendra increased the sum further to Rs.751.2 million. High-level visits abroad during the royal regime alone cost the state Rs.360 million. And he wonders what he did wrong. Perhaps it needs to be spelled out what other things he did wrong. Heck, maybe somebody needs to give him a memo on the desh ko pragati under Shah dynasty. Either he is immensely stupid or all this is to generate some sympathy for monarchy.