VSN Raju, CEO of Hyderabad-based Coempt Edu Teck, the company responsible for CBSE’s digital evaluation platform currently under fire over multiple complaints, told The News Minute that almost nothing had gone wrong and that the complaints only pertained to “one or two cases” which he termed “one of a kind”. Raju said the entire application had run successfully. CBSE’s new on-screen marking system (OSM) is facing criticism over swapped and blurred answer sheets, repeated portal crashes and other glitches.

The CBSE, he said, had already given its response, and he would only say that the complaints were “one of its kind”. “It’s not that the entire system is wrong or that so many issues have come up. That’s absolutely a wrong allegation.” 

On the issue of a student named Vedant Shrivastava finding that the answer sheet shared by the board was not his, Raju said their current thinking is that it was due to human error. “We have identified the location, who had done the scanning, and 100 percent, we identified........

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