ACC to open toll-free hotline Thursday for corruption complaints

With a view to intensifying drive against corruption, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will introduce hotline 106 on Thursday to receive complaints directly from the people. The toll-free hotline will remain open for all from 9am to 5pm during working days, reports BSS. “Finance Minister AMA Muhith will unveil the hotline at the ACC headquarters,” ACC Public Relations Officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharjee said. “The introduction of the hotline number is expected to intensify the anti-graft campaign, particularly in bribery cases involving government offices,” the ACC official added. The anti-graft body has framed a policy on the types and natures of complaints to be received for subsequent actions. The identity of the complainant will be kept undisclosed. Some 50 trained ACC staff will write down the complaints to be received through the hotline, housed at the second floor of ACC headquarters and then place them before the commission for subsequent actions. In the existing practice, people drop their written statements on corruption in complaint boxes set up at ACC offices across the country.