As lakhs of students await their CBSE Class XII board results this month, teachers in Delhi and other states are grappling with the Board’s new digital evaluation system. Complaints have emerged of blurred answer scripts, technical glitches and repeated rechecking, with teachers expressing concern that it could delay the results. This year, the Central Board of Secondary Education introduced a new On-Screen Marking (OSM) system across CBSE -affiliated schools in India and abroad, replacing the decades-old practice of physically checking answer books. Under the new system, answer sheets are scanned and uploaded to a secure online platform where teachers log in remotely to evaluate scripts. A teacher from a private school in North Delhi , however, said “checking demands a lot of attention” because even a minor mistake makes the correction process “lengthy and time-consuming”. “Teachers are not able to check more than 20 copies a day,” the teacher said.…