Overview
- Union Education Minister Pralhad Joshi chaired a high-level review of CBSE on Monday to press for greater efficiency, transparency and support for students and teachers.
- Students reported specific failures in the board’s On-Screen Marking system, including wrong or unreadable scanned answer books, missing pages, unchecked answers, calculation errors and portal crashes.
- The National Testing Agency has begun a wide operational overhaul that removed hundreds of exam experts, introduced a four-tier question checking process, and scheduled re-exams for UGC‑NET English and Commerce on September 9 and Sociology on September 10 without extra fee.
- Cybersecurity researchers flagged data-privacy and archival weaknesses in CBSE’s digital evaluation system and expert teams from IITs have been asked to audit IT security while procurement of the OSM vendor Coempt EduTeck is under scrutiny.
- The Supreme Court is reviewing the three-language policy and OSM grievances, and further administrative steps from the Education Ministry are expected to focus on technical safeguards, staffing of domain specialists and clearer student grievance redressal.