Scanned copies of CBSE answer scripts will be made available to students through DigiLocker from next year, officials said.
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has defended its rollout of on-screen marking (OSM) and the selection of Telangana-based Coempt Edu Teck for the contract.
Coempt emerged as the lowest financial bidder in a quality-and-cost based tender process, with a quote of approximately ₹25.75 per answer script, inclusive of taxes.
The board has acknowledged that around 20 cases of answer-sheet mismatches had been reported but argued that such errors could occur even under manual evaluation systems.
Officials said contractual provisions would be invoked once the verification process was completed, with penalties including ₹4,000 for every wrongly scanned or mismatched answer book.
