India, June 1 -- Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday took a swipe at the Modi government and CBSE, using the term "pickpockets", over students being charged money to get their answer sheets checked correctly. He said that when education is "treated not as a service but as a business, errors are not corrected but multiplied".

Sharing a snippet of his conversation with some students on X, Gandhi said that students are having to pay for CBSE's mistakes.

"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: Digital scan copy: Rs.100/subject, Re-totalling: Rs.100/paper, Re-evaluation: Rs.25/question," he said, originally posting in Hindi.

"A child might have to...