Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday accused the government and the premier national school board examination authority of compromising the evaluation process for Class 12 exams.
The allegations come amid growing scrutiny of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) over technical glitches and reported irregularities in evaluated answer sheets.
Class 12 exams are taken at the end of secondary education, as a path to university, Global equivalents include the High School diploma in the US and A-levels in the UK.
What Gandhi said abvout Class 12 evaluations
Gandhi said a May 2025 tender had required high-resolution robotic scanning of answer sheets, but specifications were later relaxed, allowing contractor COEMPT to allegedly use mobile phones for scanning.
“This is fraud,” Gandhi said, claiming blurred scans and missing pages had led to incorrect marking for students.
“Modi ji’s silence is no longer indifference. It is complicity,” the leader of the opposition wrote.
He also criticized fees charged for re-evaluation and recounting, saying students were being forced to pay to correct errors caused by the system.
“The mistake is CBSE’s. The punishment is the child’s. The earnings are the government’s,” he said in a post on X.
CBSE and the government have not publicly responded to the allegations. However, in a post on X, CBSE said that cybersecurity professionals from “various arms of the government” are looking into the matter.
