New Delhi, May 30:
Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Friday made fresh allegations of discrepancies in the CBSE’s process for awarding a contract for the On-screen Marking Scheme (OSM), seeking a judicial inquiry into the decision to pick an allegedly ineligible EdTech company for the task.
Sharing a news clipping on social media, Gandhi countered attacks on him by BJP Ministers for raising the issue and questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s silence and “inaction against the Education Minister”. In the post, which came a day after Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan owned up responsibility for the glitches in the CBSE evaluation system for Class 12, the Congress leader made the insinuation that the contract for OSM was not awarded.
Accusing the government of showing unnecessary haste to implement the OSM system from this year, Gandhi alleged that a company called COEMPT was awarded the contract instead of TCS and several terms were diluted to favour the former. “Pradhan ji and CBSE say ‘due process was followed’. That is not an answer; that is not accountability.