India, June 3 -- The Govt has also appointed a one-member panel to investigate procurement of OSM system

The Union Government on Tuesday transferred two top officials of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) following alleged irregularities in the Class 12 digital evaluation system and ordered a probe by a high-powered committee to investigate how the national educational board procured these marking services. Their replacements were announced late in the evening.

CBSE chairman Rahul Singh and secretary Himanshu Gupta were transferred and were replaced by senior bureaucrats Lokhande Prashant Sitaram and Varun Bhardwaj, respectively. Singh, a 1996 batch Bihar cadre IAS, was transferred as Additional Secretary to the Ministry of...