New Delhi, June 2 (IANS) In a major development amid the controversy surrounding the alleged NEET-UG entrance exam paper leak, the Union Ministry of Education has officially initiated strict administrative action. According to top ministry sources, the government has launched a thorough investigation into the alleged paper leaks. As a primary step in the crackdown, the Education Ministry has formally sought a detailed report regarding the controversial awarding of an operational contract to a…
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New Delhi, June 1 (IANS) The Congress on Monday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stop shielding “failure” and “fix accountability” for the discrepancies exposed by aggrieved Class 12 students in CBSE’s On-screen Marking system. Pawan Khera, Chairman, Media and Publicity (Communications Department), AICC, said in a statement that the PM Modi-led government stands exposed by its disastrous record on education.“Twelve years of blatant misrule and relentless propaganda have eaten aw…
New Delhi, June 1 (IANS) Demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, the Congress on Monday questioned the CBSE’s intentions to penalise the contractor allegedly responsible for laxity in the process related to the On-Screen Marking (OSM) system. The party also repeated the demand for the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. “The Prime Minister has never been known to hold himself or his colleagues accountable to any standards of ethics an…
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) The Congress on Sunday alleged a security and privacy breach in the CBSE’s evaluation portal that allegedly brought answer booklets of 20 lakh Class 12 students into the public domain, a charge rejected by the CBSE. The CBSE has repeatedly refuted charges of security lapses on the portal or wrongdoing in selecting the vendor to scan booklets for the On-Screen Marking (OSM) system.Hitting out at the CBSE, Congress MP and former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh in a post on …
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi continued his attack on the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) even as it began a re-evaluation process of Class 12 answer sheets, where some nine lakh scanned copies have reportedly been shared online with students.“Seventeen-year-old Sarthak Sidhant has exposed how CBSE manipulated its own selection process to benefit COEMPT, using CBSE’s own documents,” the Congress leader wrote in a post on X on …
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Friday made fresh allegations of discrepancies in the CBSE’s process for awarding a contract for the On-screen Marking Scheme (OSM), seeking a judicial inquiry into the decision to pick an allegedly ineligible EdTech company for the task. Sharing a news clipping on social media, Gandhi countered attacks on him by BJP Ministers for raising the issue and questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s silence and “inaction …