New Delhi, June 19 -- The company that built the Central Board of School Education's (CBSE's) on-screen marking (OSM) system, Hyderabad-based Coempt Edu Teck , on Thursday defended its execution of the project that is facing widespread public criticism and scrutiny. The company defended the scanning process for answer sheets, denied allegations of data-security lapses and substandard hardware, attributed answer-sheet mix-ups to manual errors rather than software glitches, and cited court rulings in a 2019 Telangana case to assert that it had been cleared of allegations of past wrongdoing. In its first statement over the controversy, the company also denied allegations that tender conditions were changed to favour it. In a parallel outreach ...