Anand Rai VYAPAM SCAM Whistleblower
Dr. Anand Rai is an Indian VYAPAM SCAM Whistleblower, RTI Activist, Medical Officer and Ophthalmologist.
Dr. Anand Rai's wife Gouri, who is also a government doctor, too was transferred from civil hospital at Mhow in Indore to Ujjain district hospital last month.
Days after Dr. Anand Rai lodged a complaint with CBI against senior BJP leader and former Union Minister Vikram Verma, Vyapam scam whistleblower and government doctor Dr. Anand Rai has been transferred from Indore to Dhar district.
Dr. Anand Rai had lodged a complaint with the CBI alleging that Mr Vikram Verma, using his influence and power, had got his daughter, pursuing MBBS in Santosh Medical College at Ghaziabad, transferred to Gandhi Medical College in Bhopal.
Dr. Anand Rai, who was on deputation at the health department’s training institute in Indore, was transferred yesterday.
Dr. Anand Rai's wife Gouri, who is also a government doctor, too was transferred from civil hospital at Mhow in Indore to Ujjain district hospital last month.
However, unfazed by the transfer, Dr. Anand Rai today said that he is going to move the court to challenge Dr. Anand Rai transfer.
“I am being hounded for lodging a complaint against Verma on July 17 and exposing the Vyapam scam. People involved in the wrongdoings were running the state,” Dr. Anand Rai alleged.
Meanwhile, another Vyapam scam whistleblower Ashish Chaturvedi said he along with his colleagues will write a letter to Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan seeking that the transfers of Dr. Anand Rai and his wife be revoked.
“If the government doesn’t do so, we are going to protest,” Chaturvedi said. The whistleblowers in MP are being hounded, he alleged.
“We won’t sit quiet against the corrupt government. President’s Rule should be imposed in Madhya Pradesh to replace Governor Ram Naresh Yadav and Chief Minister Chouhan, who are also allegedly involved in the Vyapam scam and holding highest posts in the state,” he said.
The CBI has registered at least 12 cases so far, following Supreme Court’s direction, to probe the scam.
Massive irregularities in various professional examinations and government job tests conducted by Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board or ‘Vyapam’ have been unearthed.
The scam allegedly involves several state government officials, former ministers and politicians.
At least, 55 cases have been registered by the MP police and 2,000 accused have been arrested, police said.
The Opposition Congress has alleged that at least 49 people associated with the scam have so far died under “mysterious” circumstances.
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Dr. Anand Rai [ MBBS, MS ]
Born January 1, 1977
Mahendragaon, Harda
Nationality Indian
Occupation Ophthalmologist
Awards Madhya Pradesh Foundation Award 2015
Dr. Anand Rai is an Indian Whistleblower, RTI Activist, Medical Officer and Ophthalmologist.
Dr. Anand Rai is best known for exposing the big Vyapam Scam.
The Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB), also known by its Hindi acronym "Vyapam", is
responsible for conducting several examinations that are used to select candidates for educational institutes
and government jobs. A nexus of politicians, MPPEB officials and middlemen carried out massive irregularities
in these exams, allowing undeserving canddiates to be selected.
VYAPAM SCAM
Dr. Anand Rai attended the MGM Medical College in Indore during 2003-2007. There, Dr. Anand Rai noticed
several irregularities that allowed the children of bureaucrats and politicians to do well despite not
attending classes or exams. Dr. Anand Rai became suspicious in 2005 when he attended his MD exams and found
that many of the top qualified students were from the same Hostel Block. At that time, Dr. Anand Rai did not
raise the issue as he was a junior. Dr. Anand Rai then visited the state capital Bhopal to alert the
government authorities. According to him, Dr. Anand Rai saw a junior Doctor Dr Deepak Yadav and others
manipulating medical exam forms, which made him suspect a scam. In 2008, he met his batchmate Dr. Jadgish Sagar
(later found to be the kingpin of the Vyapam Scam) at the wedding of a common friend.
Dr Sagar had left a suitcase at the wedding venue. When he did not return for a long time, Dr. Anand Rai
opened the suitcase to look for Dr Sagar's contact information. In the suitcase, he found several Pre-Medical
Test (PMT) admission forms and photographs.
After finishing his post-graduation, Dr. Anand Rai joined the college as a faculty member.
In 2009, Dr. Anand Rai decided to expose the irregularities in the medical exams, and filed a complaint with
MPPEB. The board formed a committee to investigate the matter and discovered that 280 proxy candidates had
impersonated the actual candidates in the exams.
Dr. Anand Rai believed the scam to be much bigger, and suspected involvement of politicians and bureaucrats in
it. After having filed repeated complaints and receiving no response, finally he filed a Public Interest
Litigation requesting investigation into the scam in July 2013.
The subsequent investigation, led by a Special Investigation Team (SIT), resulted in arrests of several
politicians including the state's former education minister. He also filed a petition in Supreme Court of India
to hand over the investigation of DMAT scam, a private medical college admission scam.
Since 2005, Dr. Anand Rai has filed more than 1000 RTI applications, including the clinical drug trials with
the Drug Controller General of India (DGCI)
2015 transfer
On 17 July 2015, Dr. Anand Rai lodged a complaint with CBI against senior BJP leader and former Union Minister
Mr Vikram Verma. Dr. Anand Rai alleged that Verma had used his influence and power to get his MBBS student
daughter transferred from a medical college in Uttar Pradesh to Gandhi Medical College in Bhopal, Madhya
Pradesh. On 20 July 2015, the Government transferred him from the health department's training institute in
Indore to Dhar. Dr. Anand Rai alleged that he was being hounded for complaining against Verma, and stated that
he would challenge the transfer in court.Dr. Anand Rai filed an affidavit in the High court and alleged that
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had asked him to stop the campaign against Vyapam scam and DMAT scam. In
return, his transfer orders will be cancelled. The court then granted one week to the state government to file
the counter affidavit. However, on September 18, 2015, the government cancelled the transfer orders without
filing any reply.
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Dr Anand Rai Whistleblower of Vyapam scam looking for public support.
Dr Anand Rai
Whistleblower of Vyapam scam looking for public support.
Bio
Whistleblower • RTI Activist • Ophthalmologist
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Short Description
Whistleblower of Vyapam scam looking for public support.
Bio
Whistleblower • RTI Activist • Ophthalmologist
Awards
Madhya Pradesh Foundation Award 2015
Gender
Male
Personal Interests
Painting and Swimming
Phone
098275 66177
Email
Other Accounts
@anandrai177(Twitter)
(YouTube)
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Dr. Anand Rai is an Indian VYAPAM SCAM Whistleblower, RTI Activist, Medical Officer and Ophthalmologist.
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