CBSE rejects Rahul’s ‘erroneous and misleading’ allegations over Coempt Edutech contract, says due process followed

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Wednesday dismissed allegations levelled by Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi regarding the award of a contract to Coempt Edutech, calling them “erroneous and misleading.”

“CBSE rejects the allegations regarding the award of contract to Coempt Edutech. It is erroneous, misleading and not based on facts,” the board said in response to an X post by Rahul Gandhi.

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The board clarified that it followed set protocols in awarding the contract to the agency.

“CBSE has followed the General Financial Rules protocols scrupulously in the awarding of the contract to the agency,” it said.

The CBSE further stated that it floated the RFP for the digital evaluation of answer books for Board Exams 2026 on the Central Public Procurement portal on 28.08.2025 and awarded the contract to the qualified bidder.

The response from the Central Board of Secondary Education came after Gandhi alleged “massive tampering in the CBSE exam results, leaving millions of children across the country and their parents in shock.”

He claimed that the company COEMPT, which was handed this responsibility, had already “pulled off the same stunt in Telangana in 2019 under the name Globarena.”

“Everyone knew the history, yet the contract was still awarded. The future of 1.85 million children was handed over to such a company, and no one batted an eye,” he said.

The Congress leader further claimed that awarding the contract to COEMPT was not a mistake but a “conspiracy”.

He demanded an independent judicial inquiry and the formation of an SIT to bring the real culprits of the alleged scam to light.