Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan takes responsibility for CBSE OSM discrepancies, assures strict action against guilty

Union Schooling Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday (Could 28, 2026) took responsibility for discrepancies associated to the CBSE’s On-Display Marking (OSM) analysis course of and warranted strict action against anybody discovered deliberately accountable for irregularities affecting college students.

Mr. Pradhan chaired a gathering with CBSE officers on the CBSE headquarters to handle technical and payment-related points confronted by college students in the course of the re-evaluation and verification processes.

Talking after the assembly, Mr. Pradhan stated the Board was working to handle all issues raised by college students concerning analysis and re-evaluation for Class 12 examinations.

“Immediately, we’ve gathered because the CBSE twelfth class re-evaluation is about to start quickly. Seventeen lakh college students appeared for the examination, and we have now ninety-eight lakh reply sheets. Every reply sheet has forty pages. So, almost forty crore pages have been scanned,” Mr. Pradhan stated.

The Minister stated this was the primary time CBSE had used the OSM analysis course of, which he described as a “student-centric” and globally accepted system geared toward enhancing transparency. “This was the primary time CBSE used it, and a few discrepancies have come to mild. I take responsibility for this and guarantee you {that a} resolution will likely be discovered. We’re engaged on it. We is not going to go away any scholar’s question unaddressed,” he stated.

Mr. Pradhan added that specialists from IIT Kanpur and IIT Madras had been roped in to help the CBSE’s technical staff in reviewing the software program and resolving points.

He additionally stated that, following discussions with the Finance Ministry, fee gateways of 4 public sector banks, SBI, Indian Financial institution, Financial institution of Baroda and Canara Financial institution, had been built-in with the CBSE portal to make the system extra seamless for college students.

“We take responsibility for any points college students face and apologize for them. I guarantee you that anybody discovered deliberately accountable for these discrepancies, no matter their place inside or exterior CBSE, is not going to be spared,” Mr. Pradhan stated.

Rahul ‘annoyed’, against tech progress: Pradhan on Congress chief’s claims

Mr. Pradhan on Thursday hit again at Congress chief Rahul Gandhi over his remarks on alleged discrepancies within the CBSE examination system, saying he was “annoyed” and “opposed” to technological progress.

The response got here after Mr. Gandhi on Wednesday (Could 27, 2026) stated the CBSE examination outcomes have been marred by “large irregularities” and demanded an unbiased judicial inquiry and structure of a Particular Investigation Workforce (SIT) to unearth the reality behind the “total rip-off”. He additionally alleged {that a} agency with a murky previous in Telangana was handed the contract by CBSE for digital analysis of reply books.

“Yesterday, CBSE gave its response concerning this matter. It’s in accordance with the procurement coverage of the Authorities of India. I need to guarantee everybody that if any irregularities are discovered, nobody will likely be spared,” Mr. Pradhan stated.

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Concentrating on Mr. Gandhi, the Minister stated the Chief of Opposition in Lok Sabha appeared “annoyed” because of steady electoral defeats and accused him of opposing reforms and technological progress.

“However so far as Rahul Gandhi is worried, he appears to have reached a special frame of mind. Attributable to steady electoral defeats, he seems annoyed. He opposed SIR, he used to oppose EVMs, and he opposed Digital India. He doesn’t appear to face with India’s scientific progress,” he stated.

The Minister urged political events to keep away from politicising the difficulty and pressured that lowering stress amongst college students ought to stay the precedence.

The CBSE additionally stated its On-Display Marking (OSM) system is backed by a “safe and sturdy IT platform”.

The Board stated the platform has been “examined and authorized by way of empanelled safety audits” and is supported by a “sturdy digital infrastructure” with a number of high quality checks and safeguards for safe scanning and processing of reply books.

The row escalated after many Class 12 college students alleged scoring discrepancies and likewise that the scanned copies of their reply sheets uploaded by the Board didn’t match their handwriting, elevating issues over attainable answer-sheet mismatch within the OSM system.