Public sector bank accounts not needed for re-evaluation fee: CBSE

NEW DELHI: Amid disorder among candidates pursuing the motorboat of the strategy earlier this week, CBSE Wednesday clarified that students applying for verification and re-evaluation of Class XII reply sheets bash not request to clasp accounts with State Bank of India, Canara Bank, Bank of Baroda oregon Indian Bank for payments connected board’s online portal.

Board besides said the portal was functioning smoothly contempt a large cyberattack effort Tuesday, erstwhile the strategy came nether a barrage of denial-of-service attacks wrong minutes of its launch.The clarification came aft respective students alleged connected societal media that the re-evaluation portal appeared to restrict payments to customers of these 4 banks.In a connection issued connected X, CBSE said portal simply uses outgo gateways operated by the 4 nationalist assemblage banks.

“Candidates whitethorn usage the disposable online outgo options — UPI, nett banking, recognition paper and debit paper — done the designated gateways,” committee said.On the cyberattack effort Tuesday which generated astir 1.5 cardinal hits connected portal wrong 2 minutes, on with much than 1 lakh attempts astatine unauthorised record access, committee said its method teams had been connected the occupation continuously to support stableness and information of the platform.

“The portal has accepted 4,924 applications for verification and 39,056 applications for re-evaluation (total of 43,980) arsenic of 12 noon today,” CBSE said. It added that students should trust lone connected authoritative CBSE connection for accusation regarding the process.The verification and re-evaluation installation was ope-ned connected June 2 for students who had earlier obtained sc-anned copies of their reply books evaluated nether boar-d’s caller integer On-Screen Marking (OMS) system.