Nepal, April 15 -- A steady stream of complaints is pouring into the Office of the Provincial Cooperatives Registrar (OPCR) in Bagmati Province, with victims of troubled cooperatives demanding the return of their savings-on average, more than 100 complaints every day.

The surge in complaints comes in the wake of a commitment made by the ruling Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), which had pledged in its manifesto to "ensure the safety of ordinary citizens' hard-earned money and return deposits of small savers within 100 days."

Following this promise, pressure has mounted on authorities, and complaints against cooperatives have sharply increased. So far, grievances have been lodged against 410 cooperatives under the jurisdiction of the Bag...