The Vyapam scam involved a recruitment scam in Madhya Pradesh's Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) that unearthed in 2009 and 2013. It revealed that the board's officials and politicians were involved in irregularities in entrance exams for medical and engineering programs. The investigation found that officials used tricks like impersonation and tampering with exam sheets and computers to help ineligible candidates pass exams in return for bribes. Over 720 students and parents were booked and 129 officials, politicians, and middlemen were arrested in relation to the scam.

1. Vyapam Scam
Madhya Pradesh Vyavsayik Pariksha Mandal (Vyapam) /
Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB)
Drafted by:
Mukesh K. Vashisht

2. What is Vyapam ?
¤ Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board/Madhya Pradesh
Vyavsayik Pareeksha Mandal, abbreviated as Vyapam
¤ Set-up in 1970 as Pre Medical Test Board to conduct entrance tests for
medical courses and engineering courses in 1981.
¤ Is self-financed and an autonomous body
¤ Is entrusted with the responsibility to conduct competitive tests for
professional courses on a very large scale.
¤ Admission to all professional courses, recruitment to numerous jobs are
conducted by the Board.

3. What is Vyapam Scam ?
¤ PMT scam unearthed by Dr. Anand Rai
¤ Recruitment scam involving
1. Politicians
2. Senior officials
3. Businessmen
¤ P I L filed in M.P High Court
¤ 2009, complaints of irregularities and crooked deals in PMT
surfacing
¤ 2013, major scam unearthed involving several officials and
politicians.

4. What did the investigation reveal?
¤ Kingpin of the racket was Dr. Jagdish Sagar, arrested including
1. Ex-Education Minister Laxmikant Sharma
2. MPPEB’s exam controller Pankaj Trivedi
3. MPPEB’s system analysts Nitin Mahendra
4. Ajay Sen
5. State PMT’s examination in-charge C. K. Mishra.
¤ 720 parents and students booked.
¤ 129 politicians, officials and middlemen were arrested.

5. ¤ Tricks used by the officials and middlemen involved in the scam were:
1. Impersonation
2. Engine and Bogie System
3. OMR Sheets
¤ Vyapam admitted
1. Missing of 1020 forms and
2. 346 imposters appeared in the exam.
¤ Vyapam officials admitted and accused Nitin Mahendra tampered with
Computers
¤ STF presented charge-sheet against 28 accused, including Jagdish Sagar .

6. Which are the most mysterious
deaths?
1. Shailesh Yadav
2. Vijay Singh
3. Namrata Damor
4. Dr. DK Sakalley
5. Ramendra Singh
Bhadoria
6. Narendra Singh Tomar
7. Dr Rajendra Arya
8. Amit Sagar
9. Anuj Pandey
10. Vikram Singh
11. Aditya Chaudhary
12. Vikas Pandey
(Allahabad)
13. Vikas Thakur
(Barwani)
14. Shyamveer Singh
Yadav
15. Deepak Jain
(Shivpuri)
16. Gyan Singh (Gwalior)
17. Brijesh Rajput
(Barwani)
18. Narendra Rajput
(Jhansi)
19. Anand Singh Yadav
(Fatehpur)
20. Anirudh Uikey
(Mandla)
21. Anantram Tagore
22. Ashutosh Tiwari
23. Gyan Singh (Bhind)
24. Pramod Sharma
(Bhind)
25. Lalit Kumar
Pashupatinath Jaiswal
26. Ragvendra Singh
(Singrauli)
27. Anand Singh
(Barwani)
28. Manish Kumar
Samadia (Jhansi)
29. Dinesh Jatav
30. Gyan Singh (Sagar)
31. Arvind Shakya
32. Kuldeep Maravi

7. Circumstantial Statistics
¤ This scam is wider nexus of poor healthcare, corruption and central licensing
powers.
¤ MP has a doctor population ratio of 1:18650 ( roughly 1:300 in Europe).
¤ Privileged parents willing to pay in education.
¤ India is the only country where sale of medical seats by private medical
colleges is part of official policy.

8. Conclusion
¤ Scam affect on general public
¤ Facts are: The case involves forgery, impersonation, bribery,
cheating and misuse of office
¤ Special Task Force investigation
¤ Scam’s beginning
¤ Biggest Scam in Indian Education System
¤ Supreme Court gives extension
¤ Shame on Indian System

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