Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has acknowledged that certain discrepancies have been found in the Central Board of Secondary Education’s (CBSE) On-Screen Marking (OSM) system, which is being used for large-scale digital evaluation of board examination answer sheets.
The minister said the issues emerged during the first major implementation of the system, which involves scanning and evaluating nearly 40 crore pages of answer sheets. He assured that all errors would be corrected and that no student would be adversely affected.
Following the concerns, the ministry held a high-level review meeting with CBSE officials. Experts from IIT Kanpur and IIT Madras have been roped in to examine the software, coding structure, and technical framework of the digital evaluation system.
Pradhan said that the OSM system is transparent but, as it is being implemented on such a large scale for the first time, certain issues have surfaced. He added that corrective measures are already underway.