Times Nowhas learnt that the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is going to levy financial penalty on the COEMPT Edutech Private Limited, as thousands of blurred answer book scans and multiple cases of mismatched answer sheets were found during the class 12 board evaluation process.
According to the sources, the board is working in states like Telangana, Karnataka, and West Bengal. The fine will be imposed in accordance with the tender rules.
Following the wrap-up, the board will levy a financial sanction depending on the scale of swapping and errors found.
Out of one crore answer books reviewed, errors and swapping have been found in as many as 5000 sheets. Therefore, a penalty will be imposed on 0.05% of the affected answer sheets.
Sources further revealed that two companies were bidding in the last stage: one was COEMPT and the other was TCS. After proper bidding, COEMPT secured the tender.
A few days back, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi slammed the board’s decision to hand over such a massive responsibility to a company previously embroiled in controversies under the name Globarena. He questioned why the contract was given to COEMPT and why rules and procedures were bypassed to award the contract to the company. “The company COEMPT, which was handed this responsibility, had already pulled off the same stunt in Telangana in 2019 under the name Globarena.?” Rahul tweeted.
Blurred, Swapped Answer Sheets Put CBSE Under Fire Over COEMPT’s Digital Evaluation System
Ever since the students have started posting images of blurred and swapped answer scripts, the CBSE has been facing intense backlash for roping in COEMPT, an EdTech company, to manage the digital evaluation infrastructure.
Post conclusion of CBSE’s class 12 board exams, the company was tasked with scanning physical answer sheets, uploading them onto the digital evaluation platform, and enabling teachers to check copies digitally instead of manually, expediating the evaluation process. However, things went downhill when examiners started reporting blurry sheets, which made it impossible for them to review and award marks.
Upon receiving the sheets through CBSE's post result processes, students found that the copies uploaded under their names didn’t even belong to them. Another discrepancy was found in the way scripts were captured and uploaded to the OSM portal. A significant number of answer books could not be deciphered because of the poor-quality images.
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