New Delhi, June 2:
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday attacked the Modi government over the CBSE’s re-evaluation process and cost, saying that when education is treated not as a service but as a business, errors are not corrected but multiplied.
Gandhi shared a video snippet from his conversation with CBSE students facing problems due to the On-Screen Marking (OSM) system of the Board.
“Beware of pickpockets – today, they are sitting right inside the CBSE. If your marks are incorrect due to a CBSE error, what do you get? A bill: Digital scanned copy: Rs. 100 per subject. Re-totalling: Rs. 100 per paper. Re-evaluation: Rs. 25 per question,” Gandhi said in a post in Hindi on X, accompanying the video clip.
A student may have to pay up to Rs 2,000 just to ensure the accurate evaluation of their own answer sheet, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha said.
Just imagine the revenue CBSE is generating when 400,000 students have submitted such applications, he said.
When scanning is done using mobile phones, incorrect marking is inevitable, Gandhi said, adding the cost of rectifying those errors is being borne by the student.
“The mistake belongs to the CBSE. The punishment falls on the student. The profit goes to the government,” the former Congress chief said.
“When education is treated not as a service, but as a business, errors are not corrected – they are multiplied. And the heaviest price for this is being paid by our children – with their time, their self-confidence, and their future,” Gandhi said.
Vedant, a Class 12 student, had recently alleged in a post on X that the Physics answer sheet uploaded by the CBSE under the revaluation process was not his. It went viral, after which several other students took to social media with similar claims.
In the video, Gandhi is seen having an informal chat with Vedant, his brother and other students about their ordeal.