New Delhi: An RTI reply reveals that financial irregularities in the Madhya Pradesh professional examination board, better known as Vyapam, pre-date the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in the state. In fact, these irregularities have been the norm for the Board since its inception in 1970.

More than 1,000 financial irregularities were reported in Vyapam since 1970 to which objections were raised by the state's audit teams, revealed the response to an RTI application filed by one of the whistleblowers of the scam, Ajay Dube.