Overview
- Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan met CBSE officials on Thursday and said he accepts responsibility for the OSM issues while warning that no one will be spared if irregularities are found.
- Thousands of Class 12 students reported specific problems including blurred scans, answer sheets that did not match their handwriting, unchecked answers, payment failures and repeated crashes of the re‑evaluation portal.
- CBSE acknowledged mismatches in some scanned scripts, said it will email correct copies to affected students and revise results where applicable, and defended the live OSM system as secure while calling a viral domain an internal test environment.
- The Ministry of Education has engaged technical teams from IIT Madras and IIT Kanpur to stabilise the platform and CBSE says the verification and re‑evaluation portal is expected to go live by May 29.
- The rollout affected about 17 lakh students and roughly 98 lakh answer‑book copies totalling nearly 40 crore scanned pages, increasing stress for examinees and drawing political criticism that has intensified scrutiny of the board’s digital shift.