A 17-year-old student on Tuesday appeared before a Parliamentary Standing Committee to detail alleged irregularities in the CBSE's On-Screen Marking (OSM) system — the same panel whose December 2025 report on the National Testing Agency (NTA) was rejected by Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan months before the NEET-UG 2026 was cancelled over a paper leak.
Sarthak Sidhant, who says he was affected by the OSM system, presented his findings at the Parliament House Annexe to members of the committee on education, women, children, youth and sports affairs. This panel is reviewing the use of OSM in CBSE Class 12 examinations, among other issues.
Sidhant, who published his findings on his website after reviewing tender documents on the Central Public Procurement portal, gave a presentation to the panel, news agency PTI reported.
He alleges that CBSE rewrote its tender rules to favour Coempt EduTeck, the firm running the OSM system. He says a comparison of tender documents revealed “at least 15 discrepancies”, claiming clauses on blacklisting, financial qualification and eligibility were altered across successive tenders.
He has clarified he is not opposed to OSM itself, but argued it needed wider testing and pilot runs before rollout.
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