BTRC fined the companies only Tk 834 crore although allegations are there that the companies had terminated calls worth hundreds of crores of takas.
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BTRC gets Tk 10 crore bonus
Aminul Islam
The government has rewarded the Bangladesh Telecommunic-ation Regulatory Commission with Tk 10 crore for the 'success in realising fines from four mobile companies for illegal termination of international calls', sources in the commission and telecommunications ministry said.
The commission officials and employees got the money with their monthly salaries in July-August, they said.
We came to know that the finance ministry, as per the recommendation of the Chief Adviser's Office, allocated the money for the commission, which has so far realised more than Tk 700 crore in fines from four mobile operators — Grameenphone, Banglalink, Aktel and CityCell — for illegal voice over internet protocol,' said an official of the ministry.
He, however, said the telecommunications ministry did not know anything formally as the BTRC deals with its financial matters with the finance ministry directly.
The amount of bonus varied for the lower rank employees to high officials. All the staffers got good amount, but the high ups got handsome amounts,' said a commission source.
One of the highly paid consultants of the commission, having around 135 staffers including around 15 consultants, however, claimed that only the regular staffs had got the bonuses.
But a regular employee claimed that the consultants too had got the bonus. No commission official, however, disclosed the amount of bonus they had received.
When his attention was drawn on BTRC bonus, the telecommunications secretary Iqbal Mahmud told New Age last Sunday, 'Did they get any bonus? I do not know. I haven't heard anything about this. '
The commission chairman, Manzurul Alam, acknowledged that they had got the bonus, but declined to say the total amount and how much each of them got. 'It is private. We got the bonus with our salaries. Why should I disclose our private matters to media?'
Asked what procedure that the government followed in giving them the bonus, he said, 'The National Board of Revenue gets bonus, customs get bonus and the government has also given us bonus.'
When he was asked why they were not willing to disclose the amount while NBR and customs made public the bonuses they had given to its officials, Manzurul said, 'I don't think NBR and customs make public the amount the staffs get with their salaries as bonus.'
When his attention was drawn to the comments of telecommunication ministry officials that they did not know anything about the bonus, the BTRC chairman said, 'As an independent body, BTRC deals with its financial matters like salaries and budget with the finance ministry.'
The BTRC fined four mobile companies between 2007 and 2008 exempting the owners and directors of the companies, who, by illegally terminating international calls, are liable to imprisonment and financial penalties through public trial in the courts of law.
BTRC fined the companies only Tk 834 crore although allegations are there that the companies had terminated calls worth hundreds of crores of takas.
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