Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday said that the government acknowledged discrepancies in the Central Board of Secondary Education’s On-Screen Marking evaluation process and accepted responsibility for them, ANI reported.The OSM system for evaluating Class 12 answer sheets has come under criticism in the past two weeks following complaints about alleged glitches and irregularities during the evaluation process.Many students have alleged that the scanned copies of answer sheets uploaded by the CBSE did not match their handwriting, raising concerns about possible answer sheet mismatches, the Hindustan Times reported.Students seeking re-evaluation also alleged that they faced portal failures, delays in payment confirmation and, in some cases, were asked to pay excess fees because of technical glitches.On Thursday, Pradhan said that strict action would be taken against anyone found to be “intentionally responsible” for irregularities in the evaluation process.“We take responsibility for any problems students face and apologise for them,” ANI quoted Pradhan as saying. “I assure you that anyone found intentionally responsible for these discrepancies, regardless of their position within or outside CBSE, will not be spared.”The education minister said that this was the first time that the CBSE used the OSM evaluation process, ANI reported. He claimed that it was a globally-accepted and “student-centric” system aimed at increasing transparency.Experts from the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur and IIT-Madras have been roped in to help the CBSE’s technical team in resolving the glitches, Pradhan told reporters.The minister added that the payment gateways of four public sector unit banks – State Bank of India, Indian Bank, Bank of Baroda and Canara Bank – have been integrated with the CBSE portal, ANI reported.Responding to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s demand for an independent judicial inquiry and a Special Investigation Team to probe the matter, Pradhan said that the leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha was “frustrated” after repeatedly losing elections.“He opposed SIR [special intensive revision of electoral rolls], he used to oppose electronic voting machines and opposed Digital India,” the minister said, according to ANI. “He does not support India’s scientific progress.”#WATCH | Delhi: On meeting with CBSE officials, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan says, "... CBSE has begun the revaluation process for the Class 12 examinations. Around 17 lakh students took part, with nearly 98 lakh answer copies — about 40 crore scanned pages in total. For… pic.twitter.com/Wk1LFLkslZ— ANI (@ANI) May 28, 2026