Ninad Raut

Just Chilling,./.............

[Pune Mirror @ThePuneMirror]

In a bizarre and extreme form of protest, an Ambernath resident named Yash Jangle entered the municipal council building wearing a garland made of chicken feet and carrying a bag of poultry waste. Frustrated by the civic body's inaction over illegal chicken vendors dumping biological waste into local drains in the Bhendipada area, Jangle placed the foul-smelling waste right outside the Chief Officer's cabin. Having pursued the issue for a month with no response, Jangle stated the dramatic protest was intended to make the officials experience the severe stench that citizens are forced to live in daily.

[Ninad Raut @gunner_nd]

@OmoAlade005 Great question

[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. :)

[Ashish Nanda @Ashish1Nanda]

STT was introduced in lieu of LTCG. Now both co- exist.

One should go. Ideally STT.

LTCG in some form is prevalent across the globe. STT is unique to India.

India needs to prune capital market taxes. STT in particular.

[Dear Men @Dear_Men_Life]

@ndtv This guy literally killed Aneesh Awadhiya & Ashwini Koshta by his car after getting drunk.

Today his family is celebrating as if he won world cup.

This is the justice system in India.

It Favors Rich & Elite, while Poor has no value of life.

Justice 💔
https://t.co/3WxYXAkiuC

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

IMPORTANT: Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh (Dera Sacha Sauda chief) granted parole once again, this time for 30 days. It’s the 16th time he has been out on parole since his conviction in August 2017.
He is serving a 20-year sentence for rape. Meanwhile likes of Umar Khaled have stayed in jail for almost 6 years without even a trial commencing. Yeh hai JUSTICE system: Wonder what our Lordships would pontificate on next! 🙏

[Ninad Raut @gunner_nd]

@pranavvk @KiranjitDas86 This…

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

The Minister of Education Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan must resign not only because he screwed up the National Testing agency's credibility by allowing the medical entrance exam papers to get leaked and destroying the future of 2200000 young women and mens careers...

...but also for manipulating The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) to create utterly nonsensical chapters on pseudoscience such as Ayurveda that will be taught to students in higher schools. They are made to forget science and rationalism and taught rubbish such as vata, pita, kapha for disease diagnosis and management.

Further, they have also strategically placed parts in the chapter which makes it look like learning "science" is anti-National (because the British destroyed Ayurveda) and embracing primitive traditions and dmbfckry of the highest order such as ancient Ayurvedic knowledge will make them successful nationalists.

These guys ruining our country by creating obstacles to progressing with science and ridiculing rationalism, and damaging critical thinking skills among our children must be booted out.

[Sucheta Dalal @suchetadalal]

This needs study and amplification - any cockroach volunteers to ensure it gets heard nationwide. It is about our- your (GenZ) future!! 🌞☀️♨️🥵🔥

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

Cockroaches survive nuclear disasters. The authorities panic over social media posts.

We condemn the takedown of Cockroach Janta Party (@CJP_2029 ) page on X/Twitter under India’s opaque digital censorship infrastructure. It is clear violation of free speech and expression. We will provide any and all support against any illegal state censorship.

@Cockroachisback

Comic by @aaaaadvik

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

I welcome the pushback to my post and interview on the #CockroachJantaParty phenomenon. Many users dismissed it as a Pakistani-manufactured conspiracy, but that is too simplistic: there are also counter-claims by @abhijeet_dipke that 94% of his followers are based in India. Whatever be the truth (and perhaps @Instagram should put the record straight), my point is that suppressing it is foolish in a democracy. Democracy’s great virtue is the outlets it provides for public sentiment, frustration and grievances. Letting these be aired on a satirical site IS in the national interest.

Whatever be the founders’ motivations, there is no denying that they have tapped into an important strain of national sentiment among our youth. As custodians of our democracy, both Government and Opposition need to sit up, listen and tackle the underlying discontent. Ignoring it, denying it and worst of all, suppressing it would be disastrous.

Such movements serve like the valves on a pressure-cooker, letting off steam. If the valves were closed, the cooker would explode under the pressure. I prefer satire to chaos, anarchy or revolution. I also feel it is our job to identify and deliver solutions to the problems of Young India. Let’s lift the ban and tune in!

https://t.co/ASpCV6nBje

[Cockroach Party of India @Cockroach4India]

If Jagat Prakash Nadda cannot improve FSSAI of India,

then he must resign without delay.

[Ninad Raut @gunner_nd]

@darshitpatel84 Basic fact hardly takes an effort before shit posting.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

I had just started following @CJP_2029...and was about to ask them what their plans were on @moayush. It is a pity that their account has been withheld by the Government. Those is power have no shame, but atleast try.

22 lakh "cockroaches" were swindled in the name of NEET-UG Entrance exam by the BJP Government's education ministry. Students died by suicide. 100s of 1000s of students are now stuck in a limbo. The PM of the country where all of this is happening, is gifting Melody chocolates to a woman in another country.

The GenZ party is only asking for what is really deserving. Remove the so-called Education Minister, Mr. Dharmendra Pradhan. Destruction of student lives in such a massive scale was unheard of in this country, especially upcoming medical careers when healthcare is suffering beyond limits here.

On the AYUSH side, which I wanted to discuss with the CJP, huge public funds that can be used for immense betterment of the country are being wasted on making posters, fund useless research, run BS clinics and send pseudoscience peddlers for foreign trips.

If anyone can help bring this account back, it would help immensely to discuss openly many important matters that are now trivialized by this Government, especially those on healthcare and medical.

[Indraj Karauli 🇮🇳 @indraj143_m]

We demand the resignation of India’s Education Minister over the NEET paper leak issue.

When students lose their future, hope, and even their lives, accountability cannot stay silent.
17 students lost to pressure, injustice & failure of the system deserve answers. 🇮🇳

#NEET

[Shekhar @Shekharcoool5]

महाराष्ट्र म्हणतो हे आता चालणार नाही.....

काम करा, काम करा...नाटक बंद करा.
#mahacjp

[Cockroach Party of India @Cockroach4India]

Our demands are simple ,we want a strong, modern, fair and developed India. 🇮🇳

• Free & world class public education for every child
• Free, accessible & high-quality healthcare for all
• AQI below 25 in every major city
• Clean air, clean rivers & safe drinking water
• 5%+ GDP investment in R&D, science & innovation
• Indian universities in the global Top 100
• Strong public schools, libraries & research institutions
• End brain drain ,create opportunities at home
• Migration by choice, not compulsion
• A balanced mixed economy , strong private sector with strong public welfare
• Industrial Revolution 2.0, 3.0 & 4.0 revival in India
• Manufacturing led growth & high-skilled employment
• MSME empowerment with easy credit & lower compliance burden
• Energy security through renewables, nuclear & domestic production
• Global level infrastructure in transport, logistics & digital connectivity
• Smart villages & smart cities growing together
• Modern railways, ports, highways & public transport
• Affordable housing & planned urban development
• Zero hunger & zero extreme poverty
• Better wages, dignity & social security for workers
• Farmers with stable income, modern technology & market access
• Food processing & rural industrialization revolution
• Women’s safety, workforce participation & equal opportunity
• Skill development linked directly to industry needs
• AI, semiconductor, biotech & deep-tech leadership from India
• Data privacy, cybersecurity & digital rights protection
• Merit-based systems with innovative affirmative action
• Transparent & accountable governance at every level
• Faster, fairer & free judicial access for citizens
• Police, judicial & administrative reforms
• Strict action against corruption & misuse of taxpayers’ money
• Zero freebie politics,investment over appeasement
• Taxpayer money spent on productivity, education & healthcare
• Decentralization with empowered local governments
• National security with economic strength
• Strong diplomacy with strategic independence
• Sustainable growth without environmental destruction
• Sports, arts & culture investment at global standards
• Equal opportunities regardless of caste, religion, gender or region
• Dignity, opportunity & constitutional rights for every citizen
• Free judicial remedies and equal access to justice for every citizen
• Free and world-class education for all
• Free, accessible and high-quality healthcare for every Indian
• Beyond education, healthcare and justice, nothing else should be permanently free
• Welfare should empower citizens, not create dependency
• Taxpayers’ money must be invested in productivity, infrastructure, research and human development
• Subsidies should be targeted, transparent and temporary
• A nation grows through opportunity, innovation and merit , not freebie politics

A developed India is not a dream.
It is a national decision, a collective responsibility, and a generational mission. 🇮🇳

[Cockroach Party of India @Cockroach4India]

Here are a few important questions for Mr. Nitin Gadkari,
journalists may take note:

•Why do so many newly built national highways begin deteriorating within months? If India is spending massive public money on road infrastructure, why are potholes and poor construction quality still so common?

•As the Highway Minister, in what official capacity were you aggressively promoting ethanol when your son’s company was reportedly linked to ethanol-related business interests? Why should there not be an independent conflict-of-interest investigation into this?

•You frequently speak about India’s energy security, so why was your focus disproportionately on ethanol instead of genuinely green and efficient alternatives like green hydrogen ?

•Ethanol production in India heavily depends on sugarcane, a highly water-intensive crop. At a time when groundwater levels are collapsing across many states, how do you justify promoting a fuel ecosystem built around such unsustainable agricultural practices?

•What exactly is the financial innovation behind your highway model? Isn’t it largely dependent on continuously increasing tolls, extending toll collection beyond justified timelines, and placing multiple toll booths within short distances?

•Why are commuters still paying tolls on stretches where the construction cost has already been recovered? Who audits these toll extensions, and where is the transparency?

•If the core model is simply borrowing money, building roads, and extracting toll revenue from citizens, why is this presented as extraordinary economic innovation rather than routine revenue collection?

[Cockroach Party of India @Cockroach4India]

It’s time to fulfil our first promise.
Journalists may take notes :

•Cockroach Party of India will expose corruption from the ground.

•Send us your problems, tips, documents, photos, videos, locations, names of departments, and officials involved.

•We will verify, investigate, and bring corrupt faces in front of the public.

•No fake claims. No personal revenge. Only facts, proof, and public interest.

•Tag us. DM us. Write your city, department, and issue clearly.

RISE. RESIST. RECLAIM.

[Anmol @Anmol_299]

Make a Post on Haapus (Alphonso) is and everyone from East, West, North, South will gang up on you

Alphonso tastes really good and is marketed well that's why its so popular, if Mangoes from your region are so good just do better marketing and they'll also be as popular as Hapus