CBSE evaluation row: Congress demands Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation  

NEW DELHI: 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 and integrity. But Minister Pradhan should resign to fulfil his ‘rajadharma’,” said Congress MP Jairam Ramesh on X.

A day after the Board said that it had taken complaints related to mismatched answer sheets and other lapses related to the revaluation process, Ramesh said, “After denying cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the On Screen Marking (OSM) system, CBSE has finally acknowledged that the system was compromised.”

“But what action is it going to take against its contractor, COEMPT? Nothing much,” he said, naming the contractor which carried out the process for the CBSE.

Attaching a news clipping related to the CBSE to penalise the contractor, Ramesh said, “It appears that those benefiting from COEMPT within CBSE and the Ministry of Education were already aware that COEMPT would not prove capable for this job.”