medical education to all medical colleges and allied institutions in India. Achievements Achievements AIIMS is the first Indian medical center to perform a successful cardiac transplant. The surgery was performed by P Venugopal, the ex-director of AIIMS, in 1994. AIIMS is an advanced center of stem cell therapy in India, especially cardiac and neurological. It holds a reputation of being a pioneer in stem cell injection. AIIMS has India's first and only minimally invasive surgery training center, under collaboration with Germany. The first in-vitro fertilization facility in the public sector was set up at AIIMS, New Delhi in February 2008. International rankings AIIMS New Delhi was ranked 204th in the world and first in South Asia in the category of Life Sciences and Medicine by QS WUR in 2022. The institute was also featured in the World's Best Hospitals 2020 – Top 100 by Newsweek. It was ranked 22nd in the world by Ceoworld Magzine. National rankings AIIMS New Delhi was ranked first among medical colleges in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2022. It was also ranked first in India by India Today in 2020 and first among government colleges by Outlook India in 2022. Awards Kayakalp Award (Cleanest Medical Facility) for 3 consecutive years 2017, 2018 and 2019: First Prize for maintaining cleanliness within the institute's premises. Controversies Scams and whistleblower case On 29 June 2012, IFoS officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi was made Deputy Secretary of AIIMS (New Delhi). He was also given the charge of Chief Vigilance Officer (CVO) at AIIMS. As the CVO, Chaturvedi took action in a large number of corruption cases involving: Selling of counterfeit medicines at a private on-campus pharmacy owned by an MLA Corruption in recruitment Purchase of medical equipments & consumables Financial irregularities in ₹3850 crore construction projects and tenure extension of then Head of Engineering-Wing supervising these projects Unauthorized foreign trips by doctors Single bid tendering Corruption in computerization purchases Treatment of officers' pet dog at institute Matters of subletting Pension fund scam Sexual harassment Serious violations by security contractor firms Chaturvedi initiated actions in around 200 corruption cases during his stint as AIIMS CVO; punishment was imposed in 78 cases, chargesheet was issued in 87 cases and more than 20 cases were referred to CBI for criminal investigation. These cases included the ones against senior IAS officer Vineet Chawdhry, of Himachal Pradesh cadre, who had worked earlier as