Madhya Pradesh Vyavsayik Pariksha Mandal

Vyapam (VYAVSAYIK PAREEKSHA MANDAL) is the Professional Examination Board of Madhya Pradesh, India that conducts various tests for admission to professional courses and streams. It is the largest examination conducting body of Madhya Pradesh and comes directly under the Directorate of Technical Education (Government of Madhya Pradesh).The Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board is a self-financed, autonomous incorporated body of State Govt. The Government has re constituted the Board of Directors for taking decisions on policy and organizational matters through Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board Act. 2007.The Board is a body corporate by the name of the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board and has perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire and hold property both movable and immovable and has the power to transfer any property held by it and to contract and do all other things necessary for the its constitution and may sue or sued in its corporate name

Vyapam scam was a massive admission and recruitment scam involving politicians, senior officials and businessmen. Indore Bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court served notices to Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) and Medical Council of India (MCI) following a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by parents of some students after reports that more than 300 ineligible candidates managed to get into the merit list. Complaints of irregularities and crooked deals in pre-medical test (PMT) were surfacing since 2009 but in the year 2013, a major scam was unearthed involving several officials and politicians from the state ruling party. The kingpin of the impersonation racket Dr. Jagdish Sagar was arrested and subsequently several other influential people were arrested including ex-Education Minister Laxmikant Sharma, MPPEB’s exam controller Pankaj Trivedi, MPPEB’s system analysts Nitin Mahendra and Ajay Sen and state PMT’s examination in-charge C. K. Mishra. The credit to expose the scam goes to Indore based medical practitioner Dr. Anand Rai.

Establishment

The Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board was initially set-up as Pre Medical Test Board by Government of Madhya Pradesh in the year 1970. Later, in the year 1981, Pre Engineering Board was constituted. Soon after, in the year 1982 both these Boards were amalgamated and named as Professional Examination Board (P.E.B.). Professional Examination Board by Govt. Order No.1325-1717-42-82 dated 17.04.1982 has been assigned the responsibility of conducting entrance tests for admission to various colleges in the state

Examinations Conducted by Vyapam

Vyapam conducts the following examinations:

1. Pre-Medical Test
2. Pre-Polytechnic Test
3. [Pre-Architecture Test]
4. Pre-Agriculture Test
5. Pre-P.G. Entrance Test
6. Pre-M.C.A. Entrance Test
7. Management Entrance Test
8. Pre-General Nursing Talent Search Test
9. B.A., L.L.B. (Hons) Entrance Test
10. Pre-BEd Examination
11. Pre-Ayurvedic, Homeopathic & Unani Test (P.A.H.U.T)
12. MPSLET Test
13. Police Recruitment Test
14. Typing paper Hindi

References

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External links

• Directorate of Technical Education (Government of Madhya Pradesh)
• MADHYA PRADESH PROFESSIONAL EXAMINATION BOARD (Madhya Pradesh Vyavsayik Pariksha Mandal, Vyapam)
• Madhya Pradesh Recruitment and Examination Updates