KVIC official caught red handed in Sambalpur while taking bribe

The CBI sleuth caught one official of KVIC, Sambalpur red handed on Thursday while he was accepting a bribe of Rs.5.000/- from a beneficiary to sanction his loan application. CBI arrested the accused and registered a case against himSources said, Khadi and village industry corporation office located in Sambalpur has been looking after the promotional of village-industry of about 10 districts of western Orissa. Under the PMEGP scheme, government of India is giving subsidy of Rs.3 lakhs to each beneficiary. Under the scheme KVIC will select the beneficiary to provide a loan of Rs.10 lakhs to start a small scale industry in rural area.Pramod Nayak of Katapali under Jharsuguda district was an applicant who got selected by the KVIC for a project. But the development officer of the KVIC demanded his 2% of the subsidy amount which comes to Rs.15.000/- before release of the loan amount in his favour. Finding no alternative Pramod agreed to pay him in 3 installments. As per the programme he was supposed to give Rs.5 thousand to the officer on Thursday. But before coming to Sambalpur Pramod he contacted CBI office at Rourkela and according to the plan, the CBI sleuths caught the officer red handed while he was accepting the bribe amount of Rs. 5,000/- from Pramod. The accused was identified as Laxmi Narayan Reddy. “We registered a case and arrested him under Prevention of corruption act”, an official of the CBI told.