CBSE Re-Evaluation Crisis: IIT-Madras Experts Dispatched for 'Complete Health Check-Up' of Post-Result IT Portal

CBSE Re-evaluation Portal Crisis: Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan has taken charge after much hue and cry was raised by the masses regarding some serious flaws in the system. Some top-notch engineers and data experts have been sent from IIT Madras and IIT Kanpur to Delhi for carrying out what IIT Madras director V Kamakoti terms a “complete health check-up” of the board’s digital infrastructure. This is amid hundreds of thousands of students facing problems such as server crashes, blocked login verification, and huge payment gateway issues while accessing electronic versions of their answer sheets. 

The review of the backend process by the team of experts will also include an assessment of the risk of a Denial of Service vulnerability developing as a consequence of the highly debated process of automatic On-Screen Marking implemented by the board. The government has invited four premier banks in the public sector to assist in this major exercise of restructuring.

What Sparked the Technical Crisis?

• Screen marking was done by CBSE in ninety-eight lakh answer sheets.

• A large number of candidates caused congestion at the site owing to the release of result.

• Over-charging occurred due to technical malfunctions in the payment gateways, to an extent that people had to pay as high as sixty-seven thousand rupees.

• Inaccessibility and authentication were some of the difficulties that candidates faced.

• Answer sheets scanned by CBSE were completely blurred.

• Denial of Service attacks are under investigation.

CBSE Re-evaluation Portal Crisis: Extended Deadlines and Fee Reductions

To ensure no student loses out on admission opportunities due to these technical hurdles, the board has relaxed its timeline and slashed processing fees.