Nepal, May 17 -- The Telecommunications Traffic Monitoring and Fraud Control System (TERAMOCS) has revealed signs of corruption. It serves as an example of how political leadership at the government level pressures employees to make decisions on matters beyond their authority.

Exercising powers they did not possess, the then Minister Mohan Bahadur Basnet decided to implement a mechanism and system to control call bypass (VOIP) without consulting or seeking input from the employees or officials involved in the decision-making process.

After being approved on September 8, 2017, the file was kept on hold for nearly a month and was only processed on October 3, 2017 by the Secretary, who then issued an order to the Administration Branch the ...