Delhi OSM system is supported by a secure, robust IT platform: CBSE
New Delhi: Amid controversy surrounding its on-screen marking system, the CBSE on Thursday asserted that it maintains a secure and robust IT platform and that no glitches or vulnerabilities have been reported in the actual evaluation portal.
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) also stated that the platform has been tested and certified by a panelized security audit and is supported by a robust digital infrastructure with multiple quality checks and security measures for secure scanning and processing of answer sheets. Addressing students, the board stated on X that the answer sheets are secure and processed through multiple quality-control mechanisms.
This statement comes amid claims on social media that the contract for digital evaluation of answer sheets for the 2026 Class 12 board exam has been awarded to a firm and that its OSM system has been allegedly compromised.
On Wednesday, the CBSE dismissed allegations that the contract was awarded to Coempt Edutech, saying the claims were false, misleading, and not based on facts.
It stated that the contract was awarded after following the correct procedures under the General Financial Rules.
The board’s response came after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday demanded an independent judicial inquiry as well as a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to unearth the truth behind the entire scam, alleging that the board had awarded the contract to a firm with a questionable past in Telangana.
Gandhi stated that CBSE students and their parents were in shock, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi had nothing to say.
In a video posted on his social media accounts, Gandhi said that unbelievable details were emerging about the Class 11 CBSE exam.
COEMPT, the company that provided on-screen marking (OSM) for your exam, was originally called Globarena. Globarena has perpetrated this scam twice before in Telangana, once in the 2019 board exams in Telangana and again in 2023. The Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha stated that the same OSM-based errors were responsible for the suicides of 23 young Indians in Telangana. Several Class 12 students have alleged discrepancies and mismatches in scoring between the scanned copies of their answer sheets uploaded by the board and their handwriting, raising suspicion about the OSM system.
