Anuj Vyas

Technology Consultant, helping clients to solve business problems using Data/AI Nature Lover and a Fan of Game of Throne . Views are my own.

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@MSEDCL agar lutna hai toh khul k luto na. Why to do fraud. You recently installed smart meter without my permission/consent and now I am looking at 200 percent increase in my bill as compared to previous months and that too when my flat was 15 days empty @Shivsenaofc #kalyan

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@whizkidd Mumbai and road? What a joke

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@ThaneCityPolice @CMOMaharashtra special torture cell just witnessed at #shilphata #dombivli. Police ko bolo k kisi ko tourture deke kuch kabool karwana hai toh yahan car mai bitha k chod do. Sala pagal hoke sab bak dega

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@ThaneCityPolice @TMCaTweetAway shil phata ka kuch karo plz. Adha ghante s khade hai. Koi thook patti ka ropeway hi bana do taki aam janta shil phata toh paar kar sake

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@gurinipspb Sir its because yo are IPS. My wife iPhone was stolen from Delhi railway station and what is got is just a lost report and no IO assigned and even after so manny months no trace

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#Exclusive: Lumiq set to raise Rs 50 Cr in Series B round from Bajaj Finserv and Info Edge

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[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

This is extremely serious @IndianCERT. We know it's a sunday, but you literally have "emergency response" written in your name.

[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. :)

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India has a new political superstar - a cockroach https://t.co/78FvDcXqSO

[Damn. @Theonenameddamn]

Blocked in 50°c heat for a VIP convoy the "cockroaches" finally refused to move

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@MinOfPower Serious voltage problem in #kota thanks to @KEDL franchisee of @JVVNLCCare

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@JVVNLCCare @hlnagar @ombirlakota KEDL koi jawab nahi deta. KEDL @JVVNLCCare k franchise hai. Koi toh jimmaderi hogi tumhari bhi. Ya kota walo ko yahi sab sehna hoga ab. KEDL ram bhaorse chal rahi hai

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@hlnagar @JVVNLCCare #KEDL @ombirlakota sir kota area Haat road mai voltage l bahut dikkat hai. We are worried about our appliances and #KEDL complaint resolve nahi karta. 10 din ho gaye voltage k problem bani hui hai. Aapke hote hue bhi aapke nagrikon ko yeh jhelna pad raha hai

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@JVVNLCCare @hlnagar @ombirlakota Bahut badiya khel khelta hai KEDL complaint bina solultion k hi close kar deta hai. Waah janaab gajab kalyig bana rakha hai and aam janta apne appliances ko barbad hota dekhti rahe

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@JVVNLCCare @hlnagar @ombirlakota 210734014058 - KNO

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Because the cruelest creature in the world is human!

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Kota, Rajasthan | Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla says, “The private company KEDL is causing distress among the general public of Kota. I have talked with the KEDL’s officials to stop overcharging people and to provide relief to the people by ensuring a smooth electricity supply… We have directed the company to adhere to the original terms and discontinue any illegal collections…”

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@JVVNLCCare @hlnagar sir station haat road area mai 15 dino s voltage k problem hai abd KEDL kuch nahi kar rahi . Request hai sir aapse

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@JVVNLCCare serious voltage issue #kota voltage fluctuation- 130 to 170v. Couldn’t cross 200+V. Will damage electric appliances. No help from KEDL

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@JVVNLCCare since yesterday voltage is as low as 40 V and sometimes zero. Koi nahi aaya theek karne. Kitne complains karni hoti hai #KEDL ko k adhikariyon k kaan tak baat pahuch jaye

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

First the NEET paper leak affecting 22 lakh students.

Then CBSE Class 12 students receiving unexpectedly low marks from a broken OSM system - many losing their college eligibility.

Now lakhs of CBSE Class 9 students suddenly asked to learn a new language from July 1, with no teachers, no textbooks, and Class 6 books being handed to 14-year-olds as a “transitional” fix.

Three exams. Three age groups. One Minister.

Dharmendra Pradhan ji has not failed once. He has failed every single age group of India’s students at once.

Every announcement plunges children deeper into uncertainty. Every failure goes unpunished. The Education Ministry has become a department of disasters.

Prime Minister Modi ji - can you at least apologise to the lakhs of children whose futures you and your Minister have destroyed?

#SackPradhan