Aragorn

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[Aragorn @magicmallu]

Delulu is the solulu for a lot of you people here….🤦🏻‍♀️

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

i believe in re-reading and re-watching your favourite books & movies at different stages of your life. the plot never changes, but your perspective does.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Unpopular opinion, but if you’re not an expert on a subject, your opinions on it really do carry less weight than those of experts. It’s not indoctrination or elitism. It’s simply that you don’t know as much about the subject as they do.

[Aragorn @magicmallu]

Someone from my extended family is a big m*di bhakt and has opinion on everything. WhatsApp status on all issues. His son got around 77% in CBSE +2 exam this year while they were expecting 88-90%. He is radio silent on the CBSE issue. Essentially, he chose hate over his own kid🤷‍♀️

[Aragorn @magicmallu]

Some days I have the energy to do everything…some days I don’t have the energy to move even at a snail’s pace…

[Aragorn @magicmallu]

From my experience, Gujjus behave similarly all across the spectrum. Not in a good way. They may be loving and kind, but only to their own kind and not to others. And the disregard for anyone existing alongside them has always baffled me. The dancing in public is a prime example.

[aree_shuklajii @th_anonymouse]

One woman breaks your heart and you scream ‘all women are the same.

90 rape cases are reported in a single day, yet you still cry not all men , blame one person , feminist , misandrist 🤡✌🏻

[Aragorn @magicmallu]

Good move on the period leave for school children. Since it’s not mandatory, students can take the ultimate decision. However, I am confused about the logistics of the weekend classes that are proposed to cover the missed days.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

CBSE’s May 2025 tender required answer sheets to be scanned with automatic robotic scanners, spines preserved, at a minimum of 300 DPI.

The tender re-issued in August quietly removed all of it. “Scanners” became generic. Resolution dropped to 200 DPI.

Now we know what that meant in practice. It has been exposed that COEMPT scanned the answer sheets using mobile phones.

The blurred copies, the missing pages, the unscanned books - they are not “errors.” They are the predictable outcome of a contract written to fit a vendor.

This is fraud. And every child whose marks were wrongly evaluated is a victim of it.

This morning, the Prime Minister had time to speak about mangoes. He has not had time to speak about 18.5 lakh children whose answer sheets were scanned with phones.

Dharmendra Pradhan ji still sits in office.

Modi ji’s silence is no longer indifference. It is complicity.

[Sarthak Sidhant @sidhant_sarthak]

CBSE has systematically rewritten its rulebook to favor Coempt Eduteck.

check out the blog.

[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. :)

[chantzy @chantz_y]

Behind many abusive men, there's a circle of his male friends who stay quiet & look away, who enable their actions. Believe women

[‏ً @itsnwts]

Girls will survive abuse, heartbreak, grief, and unspeakable tragedies and still navigate through the world with kindness and compassion, but one minor inconvenience in a man's childhood and he spends the rest of his life terrorizing and poisoning everyone around him

[The Protagonist @protagonist_xig]

Convicted RAPIST Ram Rahim granted 30 days Parole once AGAIN in the BJP regime!

[autumn⁷ 🥀 @moonlightkive]

this is why they need the citizens to be uneducated and unaware

[𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐀𝐆𝐄𝐑.𝐗 @SAVAGERX23]

women receive more shame for consensual sex than men do for rape

[Aragorn @magicmallu]

ഇതിലെ ഒരെണ്ണം ബിജെപി ക്ക് പോവാൻ അധികം സമയം എടുക്കില്ല. അപ്പൊ അവിടെ വർഗീയതകൊണ്ട് മാത്രം ജയിച്ചതാണെന്നു കരയരുത്…ക്രിമിനലി neglected ആണ് ആ ഭാഗം…

[Aragorn @magicmallu]

ഒറ്റപ്പാലം-ഷൊർണുർ-ചേലക്കര-ആലത്തൂർ ഭാഗത്തെ രാഷ്ട്രീയത്തിനെ പറ്റി ഇവർക്കൊന്നും വല്യപിടിയില്ല എന്നാലോ വായിട്ടലക്കുന്നതിനു ഒരു കുറവും ഇല്ല…സിപിഎം അവിടെ സ്ട്രോങ്ങ് ആയത് കൊണ്ട് തന്നെ താഴെത്തട്ടിൽ മറ്റു പാർട്ടിക്കാർ പണിയെടുക്കുന്നുണ്ട്…കുറെ കാലമായിട്ട്..

[Riya @folkloreehaze]

i have never seen a woman murder a guy for not having abs or a govt job 😭 no wonder this country keeps moving backwards when idiots like these think they've made a point

[The Protagonist @protagonist_xig]

“ALL 50 of the WORLDS HOTTEST cities were in INDIA”

Our groundwater is drying FAST.
Our country is literally BURNING up.

And the government’s response?

LETS BUILD DATA CENTERS FOR BILLIONAIRES

LETS GIFT MORE FOREST TO ADANI

FFS!