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NEW DELHI: The Delhi precocious tribunal connected Monday issued announcement to the Centre and the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), seeking their effect to a plea alleging discrepancies successful the board's On-Screen Marking (OSM) strategy utilized during the post-result verification and re-evaluation process.The improvement comes amid an ongoing contention implicit CBSE's integer valuation system, aft respective Class 12 students claimed that scanned copies of their reply sheets uploaded by the committee did not lucifer their handwriting, raising concerns astir imaginable mismatches and marking irregularities.The plea was filed by the National Students' Union of India (NSUI), which sought directions to CBSE to grant compensatory marks successful cases wherever OSM copies were unreadable, improperly marked oregon contained discrepancies.
It besides requested that the committee support the re-evaluation portal unfastened for different month.During the hearing, counsel appearing for CBSE told the tribunal that the committee was already addressing students' grievances and that affected candidates could attack CBSE straight with their concerns.After proceeding the matter, the precocious tribunal issued notices to the Centre and CBSE and listed the lawsuit for further proceeding connected June 12.
Meanwhile, CBSE defended its post-result services process and said the re-evaluation strategy functioned smoothly during the notified exertion period.In a station connected X, the committee said: "The Application Window for Verification and Re-evaluation remained afloat functional passim the notified play from 2 June 2026 to 7 June 2026 nether the supervision and absorption of authorities method agencies and teams from the IITs."
CBSE said much than 1.6 lakh candidates successfully submitted requests covering implicit 3.8 lakh reply books during the exertion period.The committee further stated that the portal remained nether continuous monitoring by cyber information teams to forestall malicious postulation and cyber threats and that dedicated enactment was provided to students done helpdesks and grievance redressal channels.Addressing complaints regarding the connection 'Roll Number Not Found' connected the portal, CBSE said: "To clarify doubts of immoderate of these students and parents, it is informed that the connection 'Roll Number Not Found' is displayed erstwhile a campaigner had not successfully applied during the archetypal signifier of the Post-Result Services process, namely the Answer Books Photocopy Application Window."The committee added that lone students who had applied for scanned copies of their reply books during the archetypal signifier were eligible to question verification and re-evaluation successful the consequent phase.The lawsuit comes against the backdrop of a wider contention surrounding the OSM strategy and its implementation. Hyderabad-based Coempt Edutek Pvt Ltd, which handles the scanning and integer valuation process for CBSE, has travel nether scrutiny aft students raised concerns astir answer-sheet mismatches.The contented intensified aft procurement records showed that Coempt Edutek secured the declaration for CBSE's afloat digitised valuation system, covering astir 99 lakh Class 12 reply books, aft edging past larger competitors during the tender process.Amid the controversy, CBSE shifted answer-sheet information from Coempt's servers to its ain servers arsenic a precautionary measurement against imaginable cyber threats and information breaches.
The board, however, has denied allegations of immoderate irregularities successful the procurement process oregon the valuation system.Separately, CBSE besides filed a ailment with the Intelligence Fusion & Strategic Operations (IFSO) portion of Delhi Police, alleging that its re-evaluation portal was targeted by repeated cyberattacks during the exertion window. Authorities aboriginal said preliminary investigations recovered nary grounds of immoderate information breach.
