Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan has taken responsibility for discrepancies in the Central Board of Secondary Education's (CBSE) new On-Screen Marking (OSM) system and assured students that all grievances will be addressed.
Pradhan said that certain discrepancies had come to the government's notice after the nationwide roll-out of OSM this year, but maintained that the digital evaluation system was a "progressive instrument" aimed at improving transparency and student access.
He said CBSE had digitally evaluated around 9.8 million answer scripts from nearly 1.7 million students, involving roughly 40 crore scanned pages.
Expert teams from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur and IIT Madras have been roped in to examine technical concerns linked to the rollout.
Responding to Pradhan's remarks, Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi questioned the award of the OSM contract to Coempt Edu Teck and alleged a nexus between the company's management and the government.
