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Dharmendra Pradhan on CBSE On-Screen Marking Issues and Student Stress

Friday, May 29, 2026
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Dharmendra Pradhan on CBSE On-Screen Marking Issues and Student Stress

Dharmendra Pradhan, the Union Education Minister, stepped up on the whole CBSE On-Screen Marking mess. He basically took the heat. He told everyone, “no one will be spared” if there are actual problems with how the evaluations went down.

There were already these serious complaints bubbling up. Students were talking about blurred scanned copies. Payment glitches, portal crashes—all of it. Then there was the whole headache about unchecked answers and the confusing re-evaluation process. That’s where the complaints started.

He spoke to the reporters after meeting the CBSE folks in Delhi. He defended the whole digital evaluation thing, of course. But he also admitted the stress students were under. It felt heavy.

Pradhan brought up the sheer scale of it. He said each answer book has about forty pages. That translates to roughly "40 crore scanned copies."

And then the numbers: about 17 lakh students took the exam. They secured the answer sheets. Ninety-eight lakh copies in total. Forty crore pages evaluated by CBSE through this OSM process.

He framed the system differently. He called OSM a "progressive instrument." He said it’s global now. Student-centric. Designed for them. They can see their marks clearly through the scans.

It helps sort out doubts. Whether you got more or less marks. If some answers got missed. This was the first time CBSE used this system nationally.

But the drama didn't stop there. It spilled into politics. Rahul Gandhi, the Leader of Opposition, started throwing questions around. Accountability. He pushed the government hard on how this was handled.

Pradhan reacted to that. He pointed back to the official side. He insisted the CBSE followed all the procurement rules.

“I want to assure everyone,” he said, trying to smooth things over, “if any actual irregularities surface, no one will be spared.”

But he also made a jab. He suggested that politics could wait. Right now, the real issue is the mental strain. The stress on these students and examinees shouldn't get any worse.

Meanwhile, the initial trouble started with students just struggling to get those scanned copies. Some said the documents were just blurred. Others claimed answers were left blank or marked wrong. On top of that, the payment system kept crashing during peak times.

CBSE finally stepped in. They extended the deadline for requesting those sheets. They put out a statement telling everyone not to panic. They promised that subject experts would look into any legitimate complaints. A bit of reassurance, maybe.

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