The ongoing cold quarrel in in between a posts as good as telecommunications method as good as a Bangladesh Telecom Regulatory Commission (BTRC), over auditing financial management of all done during home telecom operate providers, has deepened further. Ever given a dramatization of a Bangladesh Telecommuni-cation Act, 2010, which had taken off a small of a powers enjoyed by BTRC as good as eliminated them to a ministry, a scuffle has ensued in in between a two.
In a latest clash, a telecom method regularly asked a BTRC to free a bid routine to designate examination firms, even yet a telecom regulator had already allocated dual firms to examination dual mobile operators – Grameenphone as good as Banglalink – after reduced inventory 6 examination firms in Mar this year.
Earlier this year in January, BTRC, for a initial time, suspected sum irregularities in a operation of a country’s telecom operators, generally over income pity issues as good as programmed to designate a singular or some-more eccentric examination firms to control a outrageous examination exercise.
An central from a telecom ministry, upon conditions of anonymity, told The Independent which a method had asked a BTRC to free a bid, as a regulator had breached manners in recruiting auditors for a task.
The method central pronounced which a examination row of a Central Procurement Technical Unit (CPTU) found which a telecom watchdog had unsuccessful to imitate with open buying rules, together with those associated to pre-preparation of suggest documents, conditions of references, as good as a duration of audit.Also, a BTRC did not ask for any confidence deposition from bidders. Besides, a suggest analysis committee, comprising fourteen BTRC officials, has not been formed, in defilement of buying manners as good as no outward experts had been allocated to a committee, pronounced a official.
After finding such irregularities, a examination row cancelled a bid routine as good as a telecom method asked a BTRC to imitate with a sequence upon Apr 24, pronounced an central from a telecom ministry. The BTRC has still not cancelled a bid as good as a dual firms have been stability their examination of Grameenphone as good as Banglalink.
Talking to The Independent, Rejaul Quader, handling executive of a BTRC, pronounced a method has asked them to stop auditing a month later, after a examination firms due their work.
“By then, a dual firms had due operative upon a dual telecom operators. We did not violate any rules. As per open buying rules, a regulator can begin auditing work if it feels inhabitant confidence has been compromised,” Quader said, adding which BTRC had non-stop a bidding, as it felt which telecom operators, mostly owned by unfamiliar companies, were not pure about their operations.
He additionally pronounced which according to telecommunication laws, a BTRC needs to take prior to capitulation from a ministry, usually in box of appointing consultants. “But here, you allocated examination firms, not consultants, so a wrong to contend you disregarded laws,” he concluded.