India, Oct. 8 -- Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC) chairperson Vivek Bhimanwar, who has been in the eye of a storm after the MPSC's drug inspector exam paper leak and subsequent protests by students and opposition politicians, is considered an expert in state finance. He began his career in the erstwhile sales tax department as a Class I officer. A resident of Dharampeth in Nagpur, he did his BSc in physics and MSc in statistics and also has a law degree.

When Bhimanwar was working in the sales tax department, he was posted in Nagpur, and was chosen to join Devendra Fadnavis's secretariat as his private secretary soon after Fadnavis became chief minister in 2014. In 2017, he was selected in the IAS in the non-state civil servi...