CBSE: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has intensified his criticism of the CBSE’s Class 12 revaluation process, raising concerns over alleged flaws in the evaluation system and the financial burden placed on students seeking corrections.
In a strongly worded social media post, Gandhi questioned why students are being charged to rectify mistakes that may have occurred during the assessment process. He accused the examination board of turning student grievances into a source of revenue.
“Beware of pickpockets — today they’re sitting inside CBSE. If marks come out wrong due to CBSE’s mistake, what do you get? A bill,” Gandhi wrote.
Highlighting the costs involved, he pointed out that students are required to pay ₹100 per subject to access digitally scanned answer sheets, ₹100 per paper for re-totalling, and ₹25 for every question submitted for re-evaluation. According to him, the total expense can reach nearly ₹2,000 for some students who simply want their papers checked accurately.
‘Students Are Paying for Others’ Mistakes’
Rahul Gandhi also questioned the scale of earnings generated through the revaluation process, noting that around four lakh students had reportedly applied for verification and reassessment.
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“The mistake is CBSE’s. The punishment is the child’s. The earnings are the government’s,” he said, arguing that students are unfairly bearing the consequences of administrative lapses.
Allegations Over Answer Sheet Scanning
The Congress MP further alleged that CBSE had diluted technical standards for answer-sheet digitisation. He claimed that while the board’s May 2025 tender required answer books to be scanned using automated robotic scanners at a minimum resolution of 300 DPI, a revised tender later relaxed those conditions and reduced the resolution requirement to 200 DPI.
Referring to reports that answer sheets were allegedly scanned using mobile phones, Gandhi said the issue was not an isolated error but the result of a flawed system.
“Now we know what that meant in practice. It has been exposed that COEMPT scanned the answer sheets using mobile phones,” he alleged.
Gandhi argued that complaints regarding blurred images, missing pages, and incomplete scans were predictable outcomes of such practices and described the matter as a serious fraud affecting students.
Swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi
The Congress leader also targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying that while the Prime Minister had recently spoken publicly about mangoes, he had not addressed concerns surrounding the alleged scanning of answer sheets belonging to nearly 18.5 lakh students.
The remarks have added fresh momentum to the debate over transparency and accountability in one of India’s largest school examination systems.
