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New Delhi
The Leader of the Opposition successful the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, connected Friday (May 29, 2026) questioned however Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), 1 of India’s largest IT services companies, mislaid the Central Board of Secondary Education’s (CBSE) on-screen marking (OSM) declaration to COEMPT Edutek, alleging that tender norms were diluted to favour the latter.
He besides questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s soundlessness connected the OSM controversy.
“...Modi ji, your soundlessness connected the CBSE debacle and inaction against the Education Minister tells the state what you really attraction astir — not the futures of lakhs of students, lone the endurance of your ain government,” Mr. Gandhi said successful a station connected X.
Sharing a media report, Mr. Gandhi claimed that CBSE had called for OSM tenders 3 times earlier awarding the declaration to COEMPT. According to him, determination were nary bids successful the archetypal circular and nary qualified bidder successful the second, pursuing which method requirements were progressively relaxed.
Mr Gandhi alleged that the scanning solution request was reduced, the information for robotic scanners removed, and the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) certification request lowered from Level 5 to Level 3. He further claimed that penalties for errors successful answer-sheet scanning were besides dropped.
“TCS, India’s biggest IT services company, qualified successful the 3rd circular too. TCS lost. COEMPT — a institution with a spectacular way grounds of nonaccomplishment — won,” helium said.
Linking the tender process to complaints regarding the valuation glitches, Mr. Gandhi said students had reported “badly scanned reply sheets, missing pages” and problems with the valuation portal.
He besides claimed that teachers had warned CBSE that the OSM strategy required 1 to 2 much years of mentation earlier nationwide implementation.
Questioning the government’s mentation that “due process was followed”, Mr. Gandhi said the contented was whether the declaration had been “honestly awarded to the champion company”.
“The futures of 18.5 lakh children were handed to a institution that could lone suffice aft the rules were bent for it,” helium said.
The Opposition person besides responded to respective Union Ministers, who claimed that Congress governments successful Karnataka and Telangana utilized the services of COEMPT.
“To the BJP Ministers attacking maine for asking questions—I have, from time one, demanded an autarkic judicial probe. Expand it from CBSE to each declaration awarded to COEMPT. Our younker merit the truth,”Mr. Gandhi said.
