India, May 30 -- The Union education ministry is planning to expand its scrutiny of the Central Board of Secondary Education's (CBSE) on-screen marking system to include a full audit of the platform's implementation - from the tendering process through to actual execution - amid concerns over glitches and evaluation-related issues, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.

The move follows anger among parents and teachers, and a series of HT reports covering what appears to be a rushed process to roll out an entirely new mechanism for scoring nearly 10 million answer scripts despite concerns from those who tested the system.

"The ministry's immediate focus is to stabilise the re-evaluation portal with the help of the IIT teams so ...