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NAGPUR: Hyderabad-based backstage institution COEMPT Edu Teck Pvt Ltd, which is astatine the centre of CBSE on-screen marking (OSM) controversy, is besides facing allegations of marksheet blunders, exam glitches and fake documentation astatine Nagpur University, wherever much than 3.17 lakh students person been affected since the steadfast took implicit introspection operations.The institution secured a three-year declaration worthy Rs 5 crore from Nagpur University for preliminary and post-examination enactment successful the 2025-26 world session. National Students' Union of India's Nagpur portion has since accused COEMPT of furnishing mendacious documents during the bidding process, besides alleging that the steadfast had been antecedently blacklisted by universities successful Telangana.Since COEMPT's appointment, wintertime 2025 results carried incorrect calculations, taxable mismatches and errors successful hallway tickets.
Results for much than 1,200 wintertime examinations faced inordinate delays; much than 300 students lodged complaints with the university, and 60% of results for large courses missed the mandated 45-day deadline.The disruption spilled into the ongoing summertime 2026 examinations. Students reported that hallway tickets were not generated adjacent 24 hours earlier papers, incorrect subjects appeared connected admit cards and the introspection process was riddled with glitches.
The assemblage was forced to behaviour summertime exams without issuing corrected wintertime marksheets. Final-year students are present stressing implicit exertion deadlines for higher acquisition arsenic corrections stay pending.Affiliated colleges person flagged abstracted problems with COEMPT's software. "Basic summation of pupil exam fees is riddled with errors. Instead of Rs 96,000, the portal showed Rs 9.6 lakh arsenic outgo collected.
It's conscionable trauma for students since COEMPT took over," an introspection authoritative said.Student protests prompted the assemblage to service COEMPT a ineligible announcement and represent a three-member enquiry panel.A PIL is being heard by the Nagpur seat of the Bombay precocious court.NSUI's Nagpur portion alleged that COEMPT antecedently operated nether the sanction Globarena Technologies and utilized that entity's enactment acquisition to suffice for the Nagpur University tender.Manmohan Bajpai, a assemblage legislature subordinate heading the enquiry panel, said 2 hearings with COEMPT officials had taken place. "They blamed the erstwhile bureau for not handing implicit pupil data, which caused delays and blunders successful marksheets. But the aforesaid problems are being encountered successful summertime exams too," Bajpai said.He said hearings had been deferred until the extremity of summertime examinations and that the vice-chancellor had asked the sheet to place immoderate assemblage officials who mightiness person been complicit successful the alleged irregularities.Bajpai said the institution had contested the blacklisting allegations. Ajit Singh of NSUI said the organisation has submitted grounds astir COEMPT getting the declaration based connected Globarena's credentials.Top Nagpur University officials said they cannot enactment successful haste and request to hold till the Bajpai committee submits its report. "The institution is nether scanner and won't beryllium spared if recovered guilty. The owed process is being followed," they said. Singh has written to person of the absorption Rahul Gandhi seeking his involution successful the Nagpur University case.
