lucknow the detention of nine kgmu students is the tip of the iceberg of ups involvement in the multicrore vyapam scam of madhya pradesh sources said madhya pradesh special task force is tracking more than 150 medical students from up in connection with the scam some doctors too are believed to be involved in the racket we have a list of 150 students who could be involved in the medical entrance exam scam of 2012 and 2013 the numbers would go up 35 times if we include the records from 2008 claimed an investigator vyapam is the vyavsayik pareeksha mandal a selffinancing autonomous body of mp government that holds professional exams in the state the claim could be true since 1300 students from medical colleges of madhya pradesh have been expelled for using unfair means to get admission the number of students expelled suggests that at least an equal number of impostors are behind them said dr anand rai the whistleblower in the scam dr rai an indorebased ophthalmologist who is also helping the mp stf in the investigation said that majority of the students on the stf radar are from lucknow and kanpur sources in stf claimed that 40 students are from lucknow with majority studying in kgmu 52 are from kanpur and saifai and the remaining from allahabad and other smaller cities students from up and bihar are solvers and the ones from kgmu are the most sought after dr rai said and added that medical aspirants have to pay highest or second highest amount to the racketeers for such availing such solvers up is the hub of admission racket in medical colleges seat fixing is a big business with turnover in thousands of crores police say the existing rate ranges between rs 4 lakh and rs 50 lakh depending on the seat college and level for premier engineering institutions rates are higher the recent incidents of impersonation have revealed that the racket is not confined only to up but has spread all over country the 10 state medical colleges in up admit more than 1200 students annually more than 85 of these students are selected through the combined premedical test