Akash Mittal

[Akash Mittal @AkashMittal_7]

@Neelchaturvedi @MunCorpGurugram @OfficialGMDA @TrafficGGM @cmohry @PMOIndia @MukeshSharmaGG please look into this 🙏 बहुत आशाएं है 3 इंजन की मोदी सरकार से @MunCorpGurugram @cmo

[Akash Mittal @AkashMittal_7]

@MukeshSharmaGG please look into this 🙏..

[Neel @Neelchaturvedi]

@MunCorpGurugram @OfficialGMDA @TrafficGGM please look garbage mess on Krishna Mandir road of Sector -4, Gurugram: Near water tank, to avoid any accident pls clean asap @cmohry @mcg @PMOIndia ये कैसा स्वच्छ भारत

[Neel @Neelchaturvedi]

@MunCorpGurugram @OfficialGMDA @TrafficGGM please look garbage mess on Krishna Mandir road of Sector -4, Gurugram: Near water tank, to avoid any accident pls clean asap @cmohry @mcg @PMOIndia ये कैसा स्वच्छ भारत

[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…”

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

A 17-year old having more courage, skills, and love for the nation than many big news corporations and their multiple award winning journos combined.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

NEET। CBSE। SSC। और आज CUET।

चार परीक्षाएँ। एक करोड़ बच्चे। एक भी ईमानदारी से नहीं हो पाई।

दावे "विश्वगुरु" के, मगर देश में एक परीक्षा नहीं करवा सकते - मोदी जी ने पूरी शिक्षा व्यवस्था तबाह कर दी है।

जिस पीढ़ी का भविष्य आप बर्बाद कर रहे हैं - वही पीढ़ी आपका हिसाब करेगी।

[Akash Mittal @AkashMittal_7]

@nishikant_dubey Relevance?

[Indian Youth Congress @IYC]

Resign Now LEAK MINISTER 📢

[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

If Air Force is being used to handle NEET exam papers, why are bureaucrats & ministers being paid salaries?

[Historianunkil @SudsG5]

Solid expose on a textbook DMK / UPA style scam.

The GoI is still burying it's head in the sand, Modiji is gyaan phelaoing on hot weather but except Pradhan saying that this is a mistake and will be fixed, no action.

This is also UPA level hubris

[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. :)

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Dharmendra Pradhan ji, you can attack me all you want but it won’t absolve you of your crimes. Nor will it stop me from demanding answers for 18.5 lakh children.

Why was the CBSE OSM contract handed to COEMPT - a company already mired in controversy under its old name, Globarena? On whose orders was it done? Why were no background checks done? What is the connection between COEMPT’s management and the Modi government?

Either you ran a background check and went ahead anyway - or you didn’t run one at all. Either way, you are complicit.

As for responsibility - if the PM cared, he should have sacked you long ago for ruining the futures of lakhs of students.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

A denial is not an answer.

Why are the Education Minister and CBSE unable to answer the four simple questions I have asked?

The future of 18.5 lakh students have been put in jeopardy. They deserve the truth.

[Ajeet Bharti @ajeetbharti]

अरे निर्लज्ज @dpradhanbjp, स्वयं कुर्सी क्यों नहीं त्याग रहा?

इसकी असफलताओं पर लिख-लिख कर, मैंने शिक्षा मंत्रालय पर इतना लिख दिया कि मैं भी अब अपनी कुर्सी पर नहीं बैठ पा रहा!

[Tanmay Kashyap @TanmayKOfficial]

Honourable President Droupadi Murmu Ji, @rashtrapatibhvn

Respected Madam,

I am a CBSE Class 12 student writing this with a shattered heart and tears that refuse to stop

For two years I gave my blood, sweat and every single night to studies. But CBSE's new OSM (On-Screen Marking) system has destroyed everything. Answer sheets are blurry and unreadable, the revaluation portal keeps crashing for days, payments fail repeatedly, students are being overcharged huge amounts, hackers have targeted the site, and deadlines are extended but nothing works. Lakhs of sincere students like me have failed in multiple subjects despite our best efforts.

I lost my close friend to suicide after seeing his marks. He couldn't bear the pain. Many more students are having severe emotional breakdowns and attempting the same. Families are crying day and night. Our JEE, NEET and college dreams are completely crushed.

Madam, we are your children. We are not just roll numbers. Please intervene and save us. Kindly direct the authorities to award grace marks of 15-20 in all subjects this year for students affected by this OSM crisis. This will give hope and save 50-60% of us from ruin.

We have nowhere else to go. Please listen to our cry for justice. With folded hands and a broken heart, A devastated CBSE Class 12 Student of India

@cbseindia29 @EduMinOfIndia @dpradhanbjp @PMOIndia @narendramodi @cbseindia29

#CBSE2026 #GraceMarksForCBSE #JusticeForCBSEStudents #Osm #Cbsestudents #OsmControversy #SaveCBSEStudents #Cbse

[Akash Mittal @AkashMittal_7]

@Normal_2610 they have internal metrics to move away order book from Adani.. check the shape of order book now..

[biased indian @RakeshK32229480]

Day 28 of travelling in faridabad for my internship 😭😭
@MCF_Faridabad sewage overflow 🤮🤮
Location - rajiv colony main road sector 57 faridabad
Sir @VipulGoelBJP
@KPGBJP
@narendramodi what kind of urban governance model is this ???

[biased indian @RakeshK32229480]

Why ?? @narendramodi why ??@KPGBJP why ?? @cmohry why ?? Why ?? @VipulGoelBJP why ??@MCF_Faridabad
No point of growing at 7-8 percent when citizens are forced to live like this
🇮🇳🇮🇳 Badkhal village just 100 meters away from bhadkal lake tourist spot

[Akash Mittal @AkashMittal_7]

@Normal_2610 and these VLGCs need to offload the gas at one of the terminals. I am sure the terminal operators ready with capacity and pipeline linkage will reap from this.

[Akash Mittal @AkashMittal_7]

@kirandhanwada now that you are back, markets can finally go up from tomorrow.. 😀