Anmol Garg

Quizzer, amateur QM, sports lover, avid reader, often sarcastic

[Anmol Garg @ANMOL92]

@NBDwrites Ma'am, while this may be true to some extent, fact is, several ministers in this govt are arrogant and frankly incompetent. Minister couldn't ensure that an important entrance exam is held properly that too twice in 2 years. In any other job, he would be fired for such failures.

[Trendulkar @Trendulkar]

When I become Prime Minister, I'll make it mandatory for every central and state government neta to educate their children in government schools and colleges, using the very system and infrastructure they've created. Nothing will improve faster than that.

[Anmol Garg @ANMOL92]

@avataram I always thought my kids wouldn't be part of a exam rat race but sadly going forward also it appears to be true. Unless you score well in at least one entrance exam, probability of good professional growth in India is low.

[Anmol Garg @ANMOL92]

@ShivrattanDhil1 Farmers shifting away from sugarcane is better for the long term growth of the country. It's time farmers are incentivised to shift away from water intensive crops

[Anmol Garg @ANMOL92]

That Spain vs Portugal match was such a snoozefest. Even a match between 19th and 20th place teams in EPL would have much more excitement than this shitshow. Considering the quality of players on the pitch, the teams must be embarassed by what they have delivered.

[Anmol Garg @ANMOL92]

@DriveSmart_IN The truck driver on the wrong side should be put behind bars for attempted murder

[Anmol Garg @ANMOL92]

@DriveSmart_IN The fitrat of such people will not change even if a family member perishes in such an accident.
Blame will go to everyone else apart from them for breaking the rules and being unsafe.

[Anmol Garg @ANMOL92]

@sanjeevsanyal @rajeshsawhney Unlike Japan and Korea, India would become old before any semblance of richness or reaching the "developed" status. Lost at least 20 years in policy paralysis and petty politics.

[EngiNerd. @mainbhiengineer]

Two year back some students lost live because they were running coaching centre in basement, Yesterday around 20 people lost live in a hotel due to fire incident in Delhi, today 4 people lost live in a hospital in Bihar again due to fire.

All these incidents can easily be avoided if simple safety norms are followed, but when corrupt officers are there to pass design and give NOC by taking few thousands rupees then you're on your own.

Corruption isn't just about loss of revenue, black money or exploitation of honest people, it's taking lives of real people like you and me.

Nowhere in this world a human life is so cheap like in India.

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Ranchi, Jharkhand | A class 12th student, Sarthak Sidhant, says, “…I have written a blog that compares the tender documents of CBSE. I have uploaded and published it… There were at least 15 discrepancies, as per my blog. I would like to highlight three or four of them. Let me give a background about Coempt. It was known as Globarena, and they have a very shady background. 23 students killed themselves because of coempt… Now, I would like to tell you about RFP (Request for Proposal). What happens is the government issues a tender and asks the bidder to bid for it. CBSE issued this tender three times… I have compared the old RFP and the new RFP, and I found some discrepancies… The first discrepancy is that there were three clauses of poor performances which was completely wiped out from the new RFP. In the earlier RFP, there was a clause called blacklisted earlier, whereas in the new RFP, it was changed to blacklisted currently. Why would the board want a service provider which was blacklisted earlier? The third thing I found out is the 50 crore limit, which you needed to qualify, and coempt qualified that by 1.7% … The time frame of corrupt practices was halved, and there were project criteria changes… It shows a pattern that the industry giant TCS was not preferred, but coempt was preferred, which works as a very fragmented group of institutions…”

[Muthukrishnan Dhandapani @dmuthuk]

Be it NEET exam paper leak or CBSE OSM fiasco, lot of parents and their kids are getting genuinely upset with such severe flaws in our education system.

It is time for education minister to go. Someone who is very competent and of unquestionable ethics need to be brought as an education minister.

With employment opportunities already being dwindling for freshers and things are becoming more and more competitive, the least we can do is to have a proper examination and evaluation system. These are hygiene factors and are expected as matter of routine.

Saw a news item that government is planning to use airforce to carry NEET papers. If we've to depend on defence forces for routine civilian functions, it shows the institutional collapse.

Education ministry not only need new set of people, foolproof systems need to be deviced to prevent any future paper leaks and fiasco happened recently in CBSE evaluations.

[Anmol Garg @ANMOL92]

The Union Govt has been piss poor in managing things which ought to have been routine. Also they appear reckless enough to not sack incompetent babus and ministers. Ideally, people responsible for this mess should be behind bars for at least 5 years.

[Sunanda Vashisht @sunandavashisht]

I took my 12th grade and 10th grade exams eons ago. Both under CBSE board. I remember the stress and anxiety. I remember the sleepless nights. I remember my mother staying up with me through the nights. I remember my family taking care of everything for me so that I could focus on my exams. In our society, it is not just the kid who is studying. It is the innumerable sacrifices parents make too. All for that one exam which means so much for the future lives of children. This fiasco of implementing new digital grading technology without training and running pilot programs is inexcusable. I cannot bring myself to find any silver lining in this situation. I just hope and pray sane minds sit down and find a solution. We cannot fail our children.

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

This is an unbelievable piece of work by Sarthak and something that requires amplification.

Let me explain what he found, in simple terms.

Sarthak is a Class 12 student from the 2025-26 batch, one of the 17 lakh students whose answer sheets went through CBSE's new On-Screen Marking system.

He spent days reading through CBSE's evaluation tenders, scraped all 576 tenders CBSE has issued, and tracked how the rules changed across three versions of the same tender.

The core finding is that the company that won the contract to scan and grade 17 lakh students' answer sheets is Coempt Eduteck.

Coempt used to be called Globarena Technologies. Globarena was the company behind the 2019 Telangana intermediate exam disaster, where software failures led to 3.8 lakh students getting wrong or missing marks, and 23 students died by suicide.

A government committee found systemic failure and negligence. Six months later, Globarena rebranded to Coempt Eduteck.

So a company with that track record won a contract to handle 17 lakh CBSE students. Sarthak's investigation is about how the rules were rewritten to let that happen.

The tender was issued three times.

> First tender, February 2025. It existed, then disappeared from the public GeM portal. Sarthak scraped all 576 CBSE tenders and this one was missing from the archive entirely.

> Second tender, May 2025. Four companies applied including TCS and Coempt. All four failed the technical evaluation. Cancelled.

> Third tender, August 2025. Coempt won. Between the second and third tender, a series of rule changes happened, and every single one made it easier for Coempt to qualify.

Here is what changed, one by one.

01. The old rules disqualified any company with a history of abandoning work, failing to complete contracts, or financial weakness. The new rules deleted this clause entirely. Coempt's Telangana history stopped being a barrier.

02. The old rules disqualified any company that was "blacklisted earlier." The new rules changed this to "currently blacklisted." Because Globarena rebranded after Telangana, removing the word "earlier" effectively erased their past.

03. The rules required Rs 50 crore average turnover over three years. Coempt's exact average came to Rs 50.86 crore. They cleared the bar by less than 1%. Earlier, a smaller company had asked CBSE to lower the bar to Rs 30 crore for fairer competition. CBSE refused. So the bar was kept high enough to block small players, but sat exactly low enough for Coempt to scrape through.

04. Software maturity is measured on the CMMI scale, 1 to 5. The old rules required Level 5. The new rules dropped it to Level 3. Coempt is a Level 3 company.

05. The cooling-off period for engaging retired CBSE officials was cut from two years to one. This makes it easier to use recently retired insiders to influence the process.

06. The old rules required experience with large projects of at least 5 lakh students each. The new rules removed the student count and counted cumulative answer-book volume across small projects instead. Coempt has many small fragmented university contracts. This helped Coempt and hurt TCS.

07. The old rules required bidders to own their own data centre and disaster recovery centre on Indian soil. The new rules allowed third-party MeitY-empanelled cloud hosting. Coempt runs on AWS and Azure. This helped Coempt and hurt TCS, which owns its own data centres. It also means student data is no longer on sovereign, Indian infrastructure.

08. The old rules required the bidder to own or control the complete source code of its software. The new rules deleted this. Coempt's platform runs on Microsoft's proprietary IIS, which they don't own.

09. A last-minute corrigendum, issued right before bid submission, removed CBSE's own power to blacklist the firm if its software failed catastrophically. So even a Telangana-scale failure couldn't get Coempt banned from future government tenders.

10. The penalty structure shifted from punishing mistakes to punishing delays. The old rules fined the vendor for wrong scanning, merged pages, and unscanned books. The new rules dropped those and instead levied Rs 50,000 per day for delays. This incentivises rushed scanning over accurate scanning.

11. The old rules had a hard accuracy threshold, error rate not to exceed 0.5%. The new rules removed this number entirely.

12. The old rules specified proper book and robotics scanners. The new rules just say "sufficient scanners." The definition was vague enough that, as Sarthak notes, the scanning could be done with a phone on a stand.

13. On the security side, the contract required a VAPT (vulnerability and penetration test) certified by CERT-In before go-live, and a restricted beta phase before launch. The system clearly wasn't restricted, because the other researcher, Nisarga, was able to access it and find vulnerabilities four days before go-live. So the mandatory security audit appears to have been bypassed.

These are more than a dozen rule changes, all between the failed tender and the winning tender, all pushing in the same direction, all benefiting the one company with the worst track record in the field.

The security holes Nisarga found last week now have an explanation. The system was built by a vendor that was specifically allowed to skip the security certification, the source code ownership, the data sovereignty, and the quality thresholds the original rules demanded.

Following things need to happen immediately;

1. An immediate CAG audit of the tender process.
2. A parliamentary debate on the topic.
3. An independent investigation into
> Why the first tender vanished?
> Why the disqualification clauses were deleted?
> Why the turnover bar was held exactly where it was?
> Why the security level was dropped?
> Why the blacklisting power was removed at the last moment?

Sarthak, this is genuinely exceptional investigative work. Far better than most journalists with full resources ever manage. Take a bow. :)

[Sarthak Sidhant @sidhant_sarthak]

CBSE has systematically rewritten its rulebook to favor Coempt Eduteck.

check out the blog.

[Abhijit Iyer-Mitra @Iyervval]

He’s put in more effort in the last few months trying to ruin this government image, than Rahul Gandhi has in the last 12 years.

[Naveen Patnaik @Naveen_Odisha]

The cancellation of #NEET‑UG 2026 following reports of paper leak is a severe blow to the sacred trust students repose in our examination system.

When the sanctity of examinations is compromised, it is not just a lapse—it is a betrayal of lakhs of aspirants who studied with discipline, sacrificed comforts, and devoted sleepless nights to their preparation.

This is not the first time #NEET papers have been leaked. The leaks deepen cynicism, heighten anxiety, and jeopardize the careers of hardworking students who expect fairness.

As a nation, we cannot gamble with the destiny of our youth—the future of India. The time has come to reestablish integrity in the examination process. Accountability must be swiftly fixed to restore students’ trust.

The system must reassure every student that their sweat and perseverance will never be undermined again by lapses.

[Anurag Ramdasan @anuragwho]

India generates deep technical talent for the world. dear @dpradhanbjp this is a terrible look for a country that aspires to be talent powerhouse for the world!

how are we failing to build basic guardrails, build digital test taking, have secure logistics and in the age of ai enable test creation on the fly! education department needs to be on the cutting edge if we want an educated nation!

@EduMinOfIndia @TVMohandasPai

[Rahul Raj @x_rahulraj]

India is aspiring to become a manufacturing, technology and knowledge powerhouse, but the condition of our education system raises serious concerns.

Higher education is declining. Government primary schools are running bhagwan bharose. Parents who can afford it are increasingly moving to expensive private schools, putting enormous financial pressure on middle-class families.

Examination paper leaks have repeatedly damaged the credibility of recruitment and entrance systems. At the same time, many ITIs and engineering colleges are struggling to produce industry-ready graduates, forcing companies to spend heavily on retraining.

A country cannot build world-class manufacturing, R&D and innovation ecosystems without strong schools, reliable examinations, skilled teachers and employable graduates.

BJP government’s performance in education has been deeply disappointing.

[Ajeet Bharti @ajeetbharti]

जब मैंने कहा था कि धर्मेंद्र प्रधान को अपमानित करके (कहा तो मैंने कुछ और ही था) कैबिनेट से निकाला जाना चाहिए, तो कई लोगों को (UGC के कारण मेरे सरकार विरोध में होने से) समस्या हो गई थी।

इस नकारे मंत्री के कार्यकाल में NEET 2026 रद्द हो गई। इनसे पेपर लीक रुक नहीं रहा, DU में सवर्ण सहायक प्रोफेसरों को चिह्नित करके निकाला जा रहा है, VC वामपंथी लेख लिख रहे हैं, नई शिक्षा नीति लागू हो रही है पर पन्नों में ब्राह्मण ब्रिटिश को न्योता दे कर बुलाता दिखाया जा रहा है, NCERT में आज भी डिस्टॉर्टेड इतिहास पढ़ाया जा ही रहा है, फिर यह व्यक्ति क्या एक प्लेस होल्डर मात्र है?

हर 58 मिनट में एक छात्र आत्महत्या करता है। उसका कारण स्ट्रेस है, चिंता है, असफलता है, तंत्र द्वारा उसकी परीक्षा लेना है। निर्धन छात्र पैसे ले कर नए नगर में परीक्षा देने जाता है, प्लेटफार्म पर अख़बार बिछा कर सोता है, सड़क किनारे जल पीकर परीक्षा देता है कि एक दिन परिणाम आने पर उसकी चिन्ताएँ समाप्त हो जाएँगी, पर तंत्र उसे तड़पाता रहता है।

धर्मेंद्र प्रधान एक निकृष्ट और नकारा नेता है, उस से भी गया०बीता मंत्री। ऐसे लोगों को कोई घर का गराज संभालने ने दे, ये देश की शिक्षा घंटा सँभालेगा? @narendramodi जी, यदि UGC के 118 दिन बाद आपकी सरकार ने सवर्णों को औक़ात दिखा दी हो, और आपका ईगो शांत हो गया हो कि क्या उखाड़ लिया, गुजरात निगम और असम-बंगाल चुनाव जीत गए, तो प्लीज़ इस निकम्मे धर्मेंद्र प्रधान को विदा कीजिए।

यदि, चुनाव के आँकड़े ही आपके लिए एक मात्र मोटिवेशन हैं और देश की शिक्षा गर्त में जाते अच्छी लगती है, तो फिर कोई बात नहीं, UP चुनाव के लिए रैलियाँ कीजिए।

[Anmol Garg @ANMOL92]

@JioCare Following up for a complaint regarding non working of broadband. Internet is down since 2 days and neither the customer care is responding nor any engineer is being assigned for resolution. Kindly help ASAP
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