Prasad Educational Trust: Caught in a controversy

The Trust allegedly hired services of power brokers and middlemen in getting an MCI ban on admitting students to its medical institute revoked

There is nothing extraordinary about the white-hued edifice of the Prasad Educational Trust and the adjoining campus housing the Prasad Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) on the busy Lucknow-Kanpur highway.

A much humbler Chauhan dhaba nearby or the recently-launched Hotel Ramada Lucknow, basking in sprawling grandeur a little farther, perhaps gets the notice of commuters whizzing past the nondescript stretch of the highway.

The Trust, on the outskirts of Lucknow, today is at the centre of a massive controversy and scam, which seemingly has more entangled wires in it than what has come out.

The unfolding saga has since witnessed the involvement of