CBSE Chairman, Secretary transferred as govt constitutes panel to probe Coempt Edutech OSM contract

Amid nation-wide outrage and intense criticism from the Opposition over the issue of On-Screen Marking system, the government on Tuesday transferred CBSE Chairman and Secretary.

An inquiry committee has been constituted to probe the procurement of On-Screen Marking (OSM) services by CBSE after a student whistle-blower exposed alleged irregularities in tendring process.

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The one-member committee headed by Radha Chauhan, Chairperson, Capacity Building Commission, will submit its report to the Department of Personnel & Training within a month.

Meanwhile, cyber security agencies of the Govt of India, such as the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C), etc, are keeping a close watch on the cyber attacks on the CBSE OSM reevaluation portal.

Citing sources from the Ministry of Education, the agency reported that strict penal action will be taken against the perpetrator.

The development comes shortly after Sarthak Sidhant, a class 12 student who exposed the alleged irregularities in the Central Board of Secondary Education’s OSM system tendering process, apepared before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports.

Sidhant gave a detailed presentation before the Parliamentary Panel on how, according to him, the CBSE “rewrote rules” to favour Coempt EduTeck, the firm under scrutiny after large scale discrepancies in evaluation of CBSE class 12th results.

According to the teenager, who claims to be one of the 17 lakh students that have been affected by the On Screen Marking system released by the Central Board of Secondary Education, the rules, terms, conditions, and clauses, were rewritten, to favor a specific vendor- Coempt Edu Teck.

“This was done at the expense of national data security, and the future of students,” he said in his blog published on his website.