<p>A site supervisor of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana in Gujarat's Banaskantha district was caught while taking a bribe of Rs 10,500 from a scheme beneficiary, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) said on Tuesday.</p>.<p>The complainant, a resident of Palanpur town in Banaskantha, submitted an application to the local municipality in 2018 to get financial assistance for building a house under the scheme.</p>.<p>The accused, Nirmal Gadhvi, was hired on contractual basis by the Palanpur municipality as site supervisor of the scheme.</p>.<p>He visited the site and gave his approval, following which the complainant received a financial assistance of Rs 1,30,000 in three instalments, the ACB said in a release.</p>.<p>However, Gadhvi then allegedly started demanding a bribe of Rs 10,500 from the complainant to release Rs 1 lakh towards the last instalment following which the latter approached the ACB.</p>.<p>The anti-graft agency laid a trap and caught Gadhvi while accepting the amount from the complainant on Monday, the release said.</p>.<p>The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana is a central government scheme to provide affordable housing to poor citizens.</p>
<p>A site supervisor of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana in Gujarat's Banaskantha district was caught while taking a bribe of Rs 10,500 from a scheme beneficiary, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) said on Tuesday.</p>.<p>The complainant, a resident of Palanpur town in Banaskantha, submitted an application to the local municipality in 2018 to get financial assistance for building a house under the scheme.</p>.<p>The accused, Nirmal Gadhvi, was hired on contractual basis by the Palanpur municipality as site supervisor of the scheme.</p>.<p>He visited the site and gave his approval, following which the complainant received a financial assistance of Rs 1,30,000 in three instalments, the ACB said in a release.</p>.<p>However, Gadhvi then allegedly started demanding a bribe of Rs 10,500 from the complainant to release Rs 1 lakh towards the last instalment following which the latter approached the ACB.</p>.<p>The anti-graft agency laid a trap and caught Gadhvi while accepting the amount from the complainant on Monday, the release said.</p>.<p>The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana is a central government scheme to provide affordable housing to poor citizens.</p>