CBSE Marking Row: Firm Denies System Failure Amid Student Outcry Over Results
CBSE Marking Row: Firm Denies System Failure Amid Student Outcry Over Results
Is the CBSE's new digital marking system a success or a disaster? As students report swapped answer sheets, the evaluation firm's CEO speaks out. Get the full story here.
The controversy surrounding the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) On-Screen Marking (OSM) system is heating up. While students across the country are raising alarms over errors in their Class 12 evaluations, the head of the firm responsible for the technology is standing his ground. VSN Raju, the CEO of Coempt EduTeck, the Hyderabad-based firm behind the digital marking system, has dismissed claims that the entire system is flawed, calling the complaints "one-of-a-kind."
Students have shared frustrating experiences after receiving their results, pointing to blurred scans, missing pages, and incorrect sequencing in their answer sheets. Perhaps most shocking are the reports of answer-sheet mismatches. In at least two confirmed cases, students found they had been marked against booklets that didn't even belong to them. One student, Vedant Shrivastava, stated that the answer sheet linked to his roll number was clearly not his own. Despite these red flags, Raju maintains that the technology itself is sound and that the company is currently investigating how these specific manual errors occurred during the scanning process.
The tension doesn't stop there. Recently, a 19-year-old ethical hacker claimed to have exposed massive security flaws in the platform. However, Raju clarified that the server the teenager accessed was strictly for internal testing and was never used for actual client data or live evaluations. He emphasized that the system successfully handled a dry run with 40,000 faculty members and manages millions of answer booklets annually for various clients without systemic issues.
Politicians have also entered the fray, with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi accusing the board of massive irregularities and questioning the transparency of the results. As the demand for manual re-evaluation grows among worried parents and students, the board and the tech firm remain under intense scrutiny to prove that the future of millions of students isn't being compromised by digital glitches.
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