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Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan connected Thursday (May 28, 2026) took work for discrepancies related to the CBSE’s On-Screen Marking (OSM) valuation process and assured strict enactment against anyone recovered intentionally liable for irregularities affecting students.
Mr. Pradhan chaired a gathering with CBSE officials astatine the CBSE office to code method and payment-related issues faced by students during the re-evaluation and verification processes.
Speaking aft the meeting, Mr. Pradhan said the Board was moving to code each concerns raised by students regarding valuation and re-evaluation for Class 12 examinations.
“Today, we’ve gathered arsenic the CBSE 12th people re-evaluation is astir to statesman soon. Seventeen lakh students appeared for the examination, and we person ninety-eight lakh reply sheets. Each reply expanse has forty pages. So, astir forty crore pages person been scanned,” Mr. Pradhan said.
The Minister said this was the archetypal clip CBSE had utilized the OSM valuation process, which helium described arsenic a “student-centric” and globally accepted strategy aimed astatine improving transparency. “This was the archetypal clip CBSE utilized it, and immoderate discrepancies person travel to light. I instrumentality work for this and guarantee you that a solution volition beryllium found. We are moving connected it. We volition not permission immoderate student’s query unaddressed,” helium said.
Mr. Pradhan added that experts from IIT Kanpur and IIT Madras had been roped successful to assistance the CBSE’s method squad successful reviewing the bundle and resolving issues.
He besides said that, pursuing discussions with the Finance Ministry, outgo gateways of 4 nationalist assemblage banks, SBI, Indian Bank, Bank of Baroda and Canara Bank, had been integrated with the CBSE portal to marque the strategy much seamless for students.
“We instrumentality work for immoderate issues students look and apologize for them. I guarantee you that anyone recovered intentionally liable for these discrepancies, careless of their presumption wrong oregon extracurricular CBSE, volition not beryllium spared,” Mr. Pradhan said.
Rahul ‘frustrated’, opposed to tech progress: Pradhan connected Congress leader’s claims
Mr. Pradhan connected Thursday deed backmost astatine Congress person Rahul Gandhi implicit his remarks connected alleged discrepancies successful the CBSE exam system, saying helium was “frustrated” and “opposed” to technological progress.
The effect came aft Mr. Gandhi connected Wednesday (May 27, 2026) said the CBSE introspection results person been marred by “massive irregularities” and demanded an autarkic judicial enquiry and constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to unearth the information down the “entire scam”. He besides alleged that a steadfast with a murky past successful Telangana was handed the declaration by CBSE for integer valuation of reply books.
“Yesterday, CBSE gave its effect regarding this matter. It is successful accordance with the procurement argumentation of the Government of India. I privation to guarantee everyone that if immoderate irregularities are found, nary 1 volition beryllium spared,” Mr. Pradhan said.
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Targeting Mr. Gandhi, the Minister said the Leader of Opposition successful Lok Sabha appeared “frustrated” owed to continuous electoral defeats and accused him of opposing reforms and technological progress.
“But arsenic acold arsenic Rahul Gandhi is concerned, helium seems to person reached a antithetic authorities of mind. Due to continuous electoral defeats, helium appears frustrated. He opposed SIR, helium utilized to reason EVMs, and helium opposed Digital India. He does not look to basal with India’s technological progress,” helium said.
The Minister urged governmental parties to debar politicising the contented and stressed that reducing accent among students should stay the priority.
The CBSE besides said its On-Screen Marking (OSM) strategy is backed by a “secure and robust IT platform”.
The Board said the level has been “tested and certified done empanelled information audits” and is supported by a “robust integer infrastructure” with aggregate prime checks and safeguards for unafraid scanning and processing of reply books.
The enactment escalated aft galore Class 12 students alleged scoring discrepancies and besides that the scanned copies of their reply sheets uploaded by the Board did not lucifer their handwriting, raising concerns implicit imaginable answer-sheet mismatch successful the OSM system.
