TelecomLive April 2024

IDC operations by NxtGen TelecomLIVE April 2024 6 www.telecomlive.com rate applied. The gap between the estimated and recovered amounts is huge, for two reasons. Firstly, BSNL is giving away its rights of 20 per cent revenue share on the full amount of the value of orders, which NxtGen cleverly secured directly in its name from customers hosted at BSNL's Internet Data Centers (IDCs) at pr ime locat ions in Mumba i , Faridabad, and Ahmedabad, in violation of tender conditions. NxtGen has refused to disclose the full order value to BSNL. BSNL management is not raising this issue, which is a substantial amount. Secondly, NxtGen is not provid- ing BSNL NMS tool which can see the details of customers actually working at BSNL IDCs. All the reports submitted by various auditors have clearly stated non- cooperation byNxtGen and suspect that theremust bemore hidden and un-billed customers for which experts need to be appointed for examination. Acting on a complaint, Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), sometimes in or around May 2023, harat Sanchar Nigam B Ltd (BSNL) manage- ment is showing its generosity towards its contractor NxtGen, which commit- ted fraud, by declaring that it has recovered the entire unreported revenue from the company by recovering Rs 1.29 crore as revenue share plus interest of Rs 21.34 lakh. Whereas, the fraud is estimated to be between Rs 50 crore to Rs 150 crore depending on the horizon of fraud the investigating agencies could unearth at this belated stage and methodology of penal interest IDC operations by NxtGen r Secretly used BSNL Infra to provide services and steal revenue but BSNL downplays the fraud at Rs 1.29 crore r While NxtGen was caught red-handed and investigation was going on, BSNL gifts them with Rs 200 crore worth of cloud service project that it received from Election Commission on nomination basis