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Congress person Rahul Gandhi connected Monday (June 1, 2026) attacked the Modi authorities implicit the CBSE's re-evaluation process and cost, saying that erstwhile acquisition is treated not arsenic a work but arsenic a business, errors are not corrected but multiplied.
Mr. Gandhi shared a video snippet from his conversation with CBSE students facing problems owed to the On-Screen Marking (OSM) strategy of the Board.
"Beware of pickpockets — today, they are sitting close wrong the CBSE. If your marks are incorrect owed to a CBSE error, what bash you get? A bill: Digital scanned copy: ₹100 per subject. Re-totalling: ₹100 per paper. Re-evaluation: ₹25 per question," Mr. Gandhi said successful a station successful Hindi connected X, accompanying the video clip.
A pupil whitethorn person to wage up to ₹2,000 conscionable to guarantee the close valuation of their ain reply sheet, the Leader of Opposition successful the Lok Sabha said.
Just ideate the gross CBSE is generating erstwhile 4 lakh students person submitted specified applications, helium said.
Cost of errors borne by student: Rahul
When scanning is done utilizing mobile phones, incorrect marking is inevitable, Mr. Gandhi said, adding the outgo of rectifying those errors is being borne by the student.
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"The mistake belongs to the CBSE. The punishment falls connected the student. The nett goes to the government," the erstwhile Congress main said.
"When acquisition is treated not arsenic a service, but arsenic a business, errors are not corrected — they are multiplied. And the heaviest terms for this is being paid by our children - with their time, their self-confidence, and their future," Gandhi said.
Chat with students
Vedant, a Class 12 student, had precocious alleged successful a station connected X that the Physics reply expanse uploaded by the CBSE nether the revaluation process was not his. It went viral, aft which respective different students took to societal media with akin claims.
In the video, Gandhi is seen having an informal chat with Vedant, his member and different students astir their ordeal.
In the video clip, Gandhi is seen asking the students astir the outgo of re-evaluation and the modalities of the process.
"This is what we are seeing, not conscionable successful NEET, successful CBSE, everywhere, that you person financialised the acquisition system. The 2nd is over-centralisation. So you person taken the full strategy and you person centralised the full system. So if determination is simply a problem, it is simply a captious nonaccomplishment of the system.
"Whereas if you person a decentralised system, past 1 node fails, different node fails, you tin inactive negociate it. So determination is simply a structural occupation present successful the Indian acquisition system," said Mr. Gandhi successful the video, interacting with the students.
This is the 2nd clip helium has shared from the interaction.
Gandhi connected Sunday had targeted the Centre implicit the CBSE OSM row, sharing the archetypal video clip of his enactment with the radical of students and describing them arsenic brave young Indians who asked the Modi authorities elemental questions but received "insults alternatively of answers".
Mix-up controversy
Several CBSE Class 12 students had flagged mix-up cases aft accessing scanned copies uploaded connected the portal and uncovering that the reply sheets did not beryllium to them.
The CBSE aboriginal reached retired to them and shared their close reply sheets. The Board said that it had taken up connected "top priority" the cases related to alleged mismatched reply sheets and different concerns faced by students successful the revaluation process.
Experts from IIT-Madras and IIT-Kanpur, on with Digital Infrastructure Corporation of India (DICI), are examining the strategy and strengthening the portal and outgo gateway integration, according to authorities sources.
Coempt, the institution that did the OSM for the CBSE exam, has travel nether onslaught from Gandhi, who alleged that the steadfast was already mired successful contention nether its aged name, Globarena.
