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CBSE OSM System Drama and Responsibility Fallout

Tuesday, June 2, 2026
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CBSE OSM System Drama and Responsibility Fallout

You know, amidst all this noise about the CBSE’s On-Screen Marking mess, there’s this thing happening. Kirti Azad, that former cricketer and Trinamool Congress guy, just threw shade at Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.

He did it by resharing one of Pradhan’s old social media posts from way back in 2013. Just to poke fun.

Azad put up this jab. He wrote something like, “Pradhan Sahib Namaskar. Tera Kya hoga Kaliya?” It was aimed right at the minister, referencing the whole drama where Pradhan had publicly taken responsibility for the problems in the CBSE evaluation and re-evaluation process for Class 12 exams.

He kept pushing it. “In 2013, you said leaders have to take responsibility. Now in 2026, you should just follow your own advice and resign. Stop being a ‘Hippocracy’.”

Then came the slightly sharper line. He basically told the minister, “You are the education minister, check your spelling before you post.” It felt like a direct hit.

The post just started blowing up online. It connected directly to that old 2013 tweet Pradhan had made. Remember that one?

That old post said something pretty pointed: “Learn to take responsibility, you are VP of GOP. Cowards never take responsibility. Hippocracy of Sahazade!!!” It’s all tangled up now, isn’t it?

Pradhan, meanwhile, was dealing with the actual fallout. He recently had a meeting. With CBSE folks. Over at the headquarters. Thursday. They were talking about the technical stuff, the payment issues students faced during that whole re-evaluation and verification process.

When he finally spoke to the media after that meeting, the tone shifted. He said the Board was working. They were fixing things.

“We’ve gathered because the re-evaluation is about to start,” he said. “Seventeen lakh students took the test. Ninety-eight lakh answer sheets. Forty pages each. So, nearly forty crore pages got scanned.” That’s the scale of it.

He then tried to frame the OSM system. He called it “student-centric.” A globally accepted model meant to bring more transparency.

But then the cracks showed.

“This was the first time CBSE used it,” Pradhan admitted. “And some discrepancies came out. I take responsibility for that. We are working on it. We won’t leave any student’s query hanging.”

He brought in some heavy hitters too. Experts from IIT Kanpur and IIT Madras got involved. They were helping the CBSE technical team look at the software. Fix the system.

And payment? That was another layer. After talking to the Finance Ministry, they managed to get the payment gateways linked up. SBI, Indian Bank, Bank of Baroda, Canara Bank. Everything was meant to streamline it for the students.

He finished with a kind of public apology. “We take responsibility for what students face. Sorry for that. Anyone intentionally responsible for these differences, no matter where they sit in or out of CBSE, won’t be spared.”

But the social media drama wasn’t the whole story.

Meanwhile, the CBSE stepped in. They clarified something. The actual evaluation portal for OSM wasn't messed with.

They said the URL floating around online? That was just a testing site. Sample data only. No link to the live evaluation system. ANI reported that. It’s all a bit messy, isn't it? Just trying to sort out the technical side while the public noise keeps going.

Written by Gree News Team — Senior Editorial Board

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