Overview
- Thousands of students reported blurred or missing scanned pages, unmarked answers and apparent answer‑book mismatches after CBSE posted digital scans from its On‑Screen Marking (OSM) rollout, prompting mass complaints and individual cases such as a student who said the Physics script linked to his roll number was not his.
- CBSE has rejected social media claims the live OSM evaluation portal was hacked, saying the URL cited online was only a testing site with sample data and that the operational evaluation system has shown no reported security breach.
- Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan publicly accepted responsibility for the discrepancies, ordered a re‑evaluation process, and said strict action will follow if negligence is found.
- Technical reviews by teams from IIT Madras and IIT Kanpur have begun to examine the scanning, upload and software workflows to establish whether faults were caused by software bugs, human error or a cyber attack, and four public sector banks have been asked to stabilise payment gateways for re‑evaluation fees and refunds.
- The contract with Coempt Edutech is under political scrutiny, with opposition leaders calling for judicial probes while CBSE says procurement followed General Financial Rules; the episode raises questions about rapid digital rollout, quality control for nearly 98 lakh answer sheets and the stress on affected students and families.