Class 12 student Sarthak Sidhant, who recently drew national attention for his analysis of CBSE’s digital assessment offering, on Friday launched a government procurement portal after scraping around 1.66 crore records from the government’s Central Public Procurement (CPP) Portal.“Transparency must be accessible. From today it is,” he wrote on X. “In the last 2 weeks, about 1 crore 66 lakh records have been scraped from the government’s CPP Portal. The Nation’s procurement database is now publicly available to everyone,” he added. Sidhant asked people to download the database and find out more. “Download the database and start diving deeper. This is the beginning. More to come,” he added. Sidhant came into the national limelight after he published a detailed blog examining CBSE’s on-screen marking (OSM) system and official tender documents related to the digital evaluation of Class 12 answer sheets.The Ranchi-based student started looking into the issue after getting scanned copies of his own answer sheets and noticing differences in his marks. As more students raised concerns about transparency in the digital assessment process, he started comparing different versions of CBSE tender and tender documents available on public platforms. Sidhant said he found several changes in various bidding rounds, including changes to eligibility criteria, performance clauses and certification requirements. He said these changes raise questions about the bidding process. Sidhant also appeared before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, where he presented his findings and raised concerns about the evaluation system and tendering process.
