Bhutan King chops vegetables for school meal and social media applauds

By Web Desk
May 24, 2016

King Jigme Wangchuck pushed away all royal protocol and sat down to chop onions and chillies for a school meal.

A picture of the King of Bhutan chopping vegetables to prepare a meal for a community school has gone viral on social media.

King Jigme Wangchuck pushed away all royal protocol and sat down to chop onions and chillies for a school meal.

The photograph was tweeted by Harsh Goenka, chairman of RPG Enterprises, on May 19 and has since been retweeted and reposted several times on Twitter and Facebook.

The King had earlier trended social media when he planted 108,000 trees on the birth of his son.

Bhutan is the first country in the world which introduced the concept of Gross National Happiness instead of Gross Development Product (GDP) to measure economic growth.

The young king fondly called ‘Dragon King’ has led a vocal campaign to democratize his country speaking to people and urging them to vote.

Bhutan is a landlocked country in the South Asia with a population as little as 800,000 people.


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