Nepal's anti-corruption authority is clamping down on bribe-taking at the country's main airport by ordering staff to wear pocketless trouser. The authority said it was issuing the garments to all officials after uncovering widespread corruption at Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport.
Ishwori Prasad Paudyal, spokesman for the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority, said: "We sent a team to observe the growing complaints about the behaviour of airport authorities and workers towards travellers and we discovered that the reports were true.
"So we decided that airport officials should be given trousers with no pockets. We have directed the ministry of civil aviation to implement our order as soon as possible. We believe this will help curb the irregularities."
Ishwori Prasad Paudyal, spokesman for the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority, said: "We sent a team to observe the growing complaints about the behaviour of airport authorities and workers towards travellers and we discovered that the reports were true.
"So we decided that airport officials should be given trousers with no pockets. We have directed the ministry of civil aviation to implement our order as soon as possible. We believe this will help curb the irregularities."
Mr Paudyal said investigators had observed theft as well as bribe-taking by airport officials, who would lose their jobs if the situation did not improve. His comments came a day after Nepal's new Prime Minister Madhav Mumar Nepal expressed fears that corruption was tarnishing the airport's reputation.
Nepal's tourism industry employs around 300,000 people in one of the world's poorest countries. The landlocked Himalayan nation attracted a record 550,000 foreign visitors in 2008, two years after a peace deal that ended the decade-long Maoist insurgency.
Source: The Telegraph
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we need to follow the same in ZIA.
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