The Central Board of Secondary Education chairman Rahul Singh and secretary Himanshu Gupta were transferred on Tuesday amid the continuing controversy over the On-Screen Marking system. The government has formed a one-member committee, led by Capacity Building Commission chairperson S Radha Chauhan, to investigate the procurement of services for the system. This year the board moved Class 12 evaluation to a fully digital On-Screen Marking process. Problems emerged when students received blurred scans, incomplete pages or scripts belonging to other candidates. Experts from IIT and IIM were consulted after many applicants encountered payment failures while requesting answer sheets. Opposition figures, including Rahul Gandhi, criticised the government and questioned the selection of the private firm handling the work. Gandhi alleged the company had performed similar tasks in Telangana in 2019 under another name. The board rejected the claims as inaccurate and stated that procurement followed General Financial Rules and was awarded through the central public procurement portal. The Telangana episode involved over three lakh failures out of nine lakh students in 2019, with a state committee attributing issues partly to technical errors by the firm then known as Globarena Technologies.
