Anand Rai

Background

He was born in a small village Mahendragaon in Harda district of Madhya Pradesh to the family of a school teacher.

Education

Rai attended the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Medical College in Indore during 2003-2007. He became suspicious in 2005 when he attended his Doctor of Medicine exams and found that many of the top qualified students were from the same hostel block.

Career

He is best known for exposing the 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. There, he noticed several irregularities that allowed the children of bureaucrats and politicians to do well despite not attending classes or examinations

At that time, he did not raise the issue as he was a junior.

He then visited the state capital Bhopal to alert the government authorities. According to him, he saw a junior doctor Deepak Yadav and others manipulating medical exam forms, which made him suspect a scam.

Sagar had left a suitcase at the wedding venue. When he did not return for a long time, Rai opened the suitcase to look for Sagar"s contact information.

In the suitcase, he found several Pre-Medical Test (Mexican Workers Party) admission forms and photographs.

After finishing his post-graduation, Rai joined the college as a faculty member. In 2009, he 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 examinations Rai believed the scam to be much bigger, and suspected involvement of politicians and bureaucrats in lieutenant

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, He has filed more than 1000 Radiation to Information applications, including the clinical drug trials with the Drug Controller General of India (DGCI)

On 17 July 2015, Rai lodged a complaint with China, Burma, India Theatre of Operations against senior BJP leader and former Union Minister Vikram Verma.

He alleged that Verma had used his influence and power to get his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery 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.

Rai alleged that he was being hounded for complaining against Verma, and stated that he would challenge the transfer in court.

Rai filed an affidavit in the High court and alleged that Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had asked him to stop the campaign against 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.

Membership

He had been a member of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and was active in Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (Royal Statistical Society, UK) activities from 2005 to 2013.

Connections

Friend:

Jadgish Sagar