Avinash Mathews

Lawyer. Co-founder of CEDE, an initiative to reduce the gap in representation in the Indian legal profession by the cession of social capital. Trivia Enthusiast

[Avinash Mathews @avinashtt]

@abybaby_san Spoken like a true air industry nepo

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Read this story. Carefully.

CBSE called for OSM tenders thrice. Zero bids the first time. No qualified bidder the second time. And finally, the technical bar was lowered until COEMPT could clear it.

Scanning resolution cut. Robotic scanner requirement dropped. CMMI certification lowered from Level 5 to Level 3. Penalties for errors in answer sheets removed.

TCS, India’s biggest IT services company, qualified in the third round too. TCS lost. COEMPT - a company with a spectacular track record of failure - won.

And what are CBSE students complaining about today? Badly scanned answer sheets. Missing pages. A broken evaluation portal.

Teachers had warned CBSE that the OSM system needed at least a year or two for further preparation before nationwide implementation, yet it was rushed through.

So I ask again - who wanted COEMPT to win? Who lowered the bar, step by step, until this company could clear it?

Pradhan ji and CBSE say “due process was followed.” That is not an answer, that is not accountability. The question is whether the contract was honestly awarded to the best company which could do the job correctly.

The futures of 18.5 lakh children were handed to a company that could only qualify after the rules were bent for it.

To the BJP Ministers attacking me for asking questions - I have, from day one, demanded an independent judicial probe. Expand it from CBSE to every contract awarded to COEMPT. Our youth deserve the truth.

And Modi ji, your silence on the CBSE debacle and inaction against the Education Minister tells the country what you actually care about - not the futures of lakhs of students, only the survival of your own government.

[Avinash Mathews @avinashtt]

@sparsh_sehgal All matters are listed on the very next day once you've cleared defects in the Delhi high court. This is nothing special. But yes, getting a matter heard after the first hearing is often dependent on your lawyers clout.

[Avinash Mathews @avinashtt]

@muskanmt13 Tbh as a consultant in an earlier life would check in my laptop regularly.

[Avinash Mathews @avinashtt]

@VrindaBhandari Yes. Mine did.

[Avinash Mathews @avinashtt]

@nairmayukh @jayantea_ Kona Bahn Mi is disappointing at best. The pork has an indian flavour, and the sandwich as a whole is missing the lightness and brightness of authentic bahn mi.

[Avinash Mathews @avinashtt]

@globalstatsx @JonErlichman @grok can you post the yearlyrevenues of these companies

[Avinash Mathews @avinashtt]

@EunoiaQuiz @chauchaubhath Plan Bee?

[Avinash Mathews @avinashtt]

Can anyone explain what happened in 2016? The Preservation of Subsoil Water Acts was in 2008-09. Is it that the base load only then became high enough for the stubble burning to be the last straw to break the camel's back?

[Avinash Mathews @avinashtt]

@Otternyatlaw @Gtmanoharan Super expensive luggage. Learnt of it only when travelling for an outstation matter with a senior advocate.

[Avinash Mathews @avinashtt]

@eminentjurist Do you have lexis advance? I find that it has a decent range of updated commentaries.

[Avinash Mathews @avinashtt]

Why @Cede Your Capital exists.

[Aunindyo Chakravarty @Aunindyo2023]

Caste is fundamental to social capital. For example, those born into mercantile caste-communities have an inherent starting advantage in business, even if their parents were professionals - teachers, engineers, doctors, army officers.

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[Avinash Mathews @avinashtt]

@CAHimankSingla You've made a mistake in your Excel sheet boss. These figures are wrong. Megha engineering gave 519 Cr to the bjp

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

While the Arvind Kejriwal arrest story has taken over the news cycle, here is something for all of you to mull on. The SBI had sought time till end June to complete the matching of electoral bond donors to political parties saying it was a time consuming exercise (end June yaane post election) . Guess what? An intern friend (and many newspapers) have already done the matching in a few hours. What does that say about SBI and indeed about institutional integrity in the country? And on whose orders was this absurd timeline given? Thank god the SC saw through this charade . #ElectoralBonds

[Avinash Mathews @avinashtt]

@chaitanyaasingh Coway

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

"Every senior advocate should recruit and mentor at least one marginalized member in their chamber. The same should be done with some patience and dignity; otherwise, it will have a negative affect. This can be institutionalized through regulations of the Bar Council of India": Justice PS Narasimha

@CedeYourCapital @barcouncilindia