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00:00Hello and welcome, I'm Sonal Merothra Kapoor, this is Live Live.
00:05On the programme today, there are two stories that are really on the top of our focus.
00:11Number one, it is a story of commercial LPG prices.
00:17The pain there is pinching you more than you understand.
00:23The prices have gone up on the upside of 3100 per cylinder.
00:27This is commercial LPG, remember.
00:29What this means is that your milk and butter and bread are immediately not going up.
00:36But eating out, having a cup of tea outside, even eating your momos, all of that becomes
00:43more expensive.
00:46Number two stories that we are looking at.
00:49This is our continued focus on CBSC.
00:53So far, the story had been of mismanagement, misimplementation, bad implementation of the
01:03OSM system, online marking system.
01:08But now the story has moved forward.
01:11Allegations are now of corruption on why the tender for this new OSM system was given to
01:20Co-empt.
01:21This company you will hear a lot about and I'll explain that on the programme.
01:24Also, the interesting bit in this is that these whistleblowers of corruption in CBSC are not
01:34politicians, are not stakeholders or can say stakeholders, are actually class 12 students
01:40themselves.
01:42One spoke of how vulnerable the system was and it was so easy to hack it, it took him 30
01:48minutes,
01:49you heard him, Nisagra on the programme.
01:51And the second one looked into the tendering process.
01:57Looked into what was it earlier, why was it changed and how.
02:02And it seems like the red carpet was rolled out for this one company Co-empt to come and
02:08take the tender.
02:10Both these whistleblowers have a lot to say and we'll hear from them on the programme.
02:14But first up, let's take you through what else is making news in and around the country.
02:24A fryer broke out in the School of Planning and Architecture Building in Delhi.
02:28Visual shed online showed smoke bellowing out of windows and fire tenders reaching the site.
02:33No injuries reported.
02:35The incident comes amidst massive row over exam irregularities with the NTA Agency and Central
02:41Board of Secondary Education at CBSC both facing heavy criticism.
02:47Earlier it was said that this was actually the Education Ministry.
02:50That fact has now been checked.
02:53Meanwhile, Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court sent the neat paper leak accused to judicial custody.
02:59Dr. Manoj, Tejas and Manisha will now be produced before the court on June 15.
03:09These are all the key architects of the neat paper leak.
03:16The CBI is now widening its probe into the death of Thusha Sharma with investigators now
03:21recreating the crime scene at the residence of former judge Giribala Singh.
03:25The probe agency used dummies to reconstruct the sequence of events leading to the death of
03:30Thusha on the night of 12th of May.
03:35The price of commercial LPG cylinders used by hotels, by restaurants and other businesses
03:40increased by Rs 42 per 19 kg cylinder.
03:47Following the revision, the price of the 19 kg commercial LPG cylinder in Delhi has gone up.
03:54And it will now be on the upside of 3100.
04:00Abhishek Banerjee has sought 15-day time from the CID for his appearance.
04:08He was summoned by the CID today in connection with a probe into the alleged use of fort signatures
04:14of party legislator in a communication submitted to the Assembly Secretary.
04:18And according to sources, Abhishek had sent a letter to the CID asking 15 days' time as
04:24he is unwell at the CID to visit the CID headquarters.
04:30Team Suvendu has expanded at 35 new MLAs as ministers of BJP government in West Bengal.
04:39Governor there, Arun Ravi, administered the oath of office, taking the strength of the Council of Ministers to 41.
04:48In while down south, while DK Sivkumar has secured the chief minister's chair,
04:53composition of his cabinet remains a work in progress.
04:56The CM-designate is now expected to finalise his team only after consultations with the Congress High Command.
05:02Sources say 10 to 12 ministers are likely to be sworn in.
05:10Royal Challengers Bengaluru have been crowned champions of IPL for the second time and for the second year running.
05:16The clinical playoff, their performance from the defending champions, or RCB, beat Gujarat Titans by five wickets.
05:24RCB is sort of a fastly man as they say.
05:29Virat Kohli smashed his fastest IPL 50 as the chase master blunted GT's formidable bowling attack.
05:39Zee Entertainment has secured the rights to broadcast the 2026 FIFA World Cup and 38 other FIFA events through 2034,
05:49ending a month-long standoff over the tournament's availability in one of the world's last unsold major markets.
05:56While the financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, FIFA had initially sought about $100 million for Indian package,
06:06covering 2026 and 2030 World Cups, before slashing the prize to 60.
06:13And the Ebola outbreak has triggered a global response as the case count now has gone up even further.
06:19Over 1,100 cases of Ebola are still being investigated and several nations now place travel restrictions,
06:27including especially those coming from Congo and Uganda.
06:37Not petrol and not even tomatoes.
06:39The next inflation shock could be hiding, actually, not in plain sight, but in your dinner bills.
06:47The commercial LPG cylinder in Delhi now cost, used to cost, actually in January if you check,
06:54about Rs.1691.
06:56Cut to the 1st of June, it now costs Rs.3100.
07:01Now, while your household LPG cylinder price hasn't changed, commercial LPG prices are shooting through the roof.
07:08And let's look at the numbers to really understand how steep the rise has been.
07:11In January, the commercial LPG cylinders in Delhi cost about Rs.1691.
07:17By April, the price had already come to Rs.2078.
07:21Then came the massive jump on the 1st of May, you'll see that over there.
07:25It went up to Rs.3071.
07:27That's an increase of nearly Rs.1000 in just one month.
07:32And now, as of June 1st, the prices have gone up even further.
07:36Rs.3113 per cylinder over there.
07:42What does this mean?
07:43This means in just five months, commercial LPG prices have surged by over 84%.
07:51And let's tell you why it matters.
07:54Because commercial LPG isn't used in your kitchen, yes.
07:56But it is used in restaurants.
07:58It is used in dhabas.
07:59It is used in tea stalls, in food carts, in bakeries, in caterers,
08:03sweet shops, thousands of small businesses that feed millions of Indians every day.
08:08And when their fuel prices rise, this sharply has an eventual payoff on us.
08:18Eventually, it hits the customer.
08:20No, your household LPG will not be impacted immediately.
08:25But remember, restaurants face higher operating costs.
08:28That means your street food venters face higher cooking costs.
08:32That means your small businesses face higher input costs.
08:35That also means your caterers, any weddings or birthdays or any kind of family occasion coming in,
08:42the cost of the event will go up.
08:44And that also means that eating out is likely to get more expensive.
08:49Your favourite restaurants may not hike prices overnight.
08:52Your local Momo vendor may not increase rates tomorrow morning.
08:56But the margins are thin.
08:58And sustained cost pressures eventually find their way into the menu card and into our pockets.
09:05Now, the 20 rupee snack becomes 25.
09:08100 rupee meal becomes 110 very easily.
09:10A wedding catering bill becomes noticeably larger.
09:12And this is how inflation starts to travel.
09:18Not always through dramatic headlines, but through hundreds of small price increase
09:23that slowly become part of everyday life.
09:25And that's where the broader inflation picture becomes more important.
09:29But talking about inflation, let's take a look at the wholesale inflation.
09:33Back in October, the wholesale inflation was negative.
09:37Minus 1.21%.
09:39By January, it had moved up to 1.81%.
09:44By March, it reached 3.88%.
09:48And in April, the wholesale inflation is up 8.3%.
09:56That's a sharp escalation.
10:00Now, why does wholesale inflation really matter?
10:03Because it reflects the cost businesses face before products reach the consumer.
10:08When wholesale prices rise, companies absorb the hit for a while.
10:13But eventually, many pass it on.
10:15Which brings us to the passed on rate, the retail rate.
10:20So let's take a look at retail inflation.
10:24Retail inflation has been steadily climbing.
10:27From just 0.25% you'll see over there in October to 2.74% in Jan to 3.48
10:37% in April.
10:40Now, these numbers are still far below the peaks.
10:43India witnessed in the previous inflation cycles, remember.
10:46But the trend, that is certainly unmistakable.
10:51Overall, what does it mean that costs are moving up?
10:54Fuel costs are moving up even more.
10:56Wholesale prices are moving up.
10:57Commercial LPG is becoming significantly more expensive.
11:00The challenge for policy makers is to prevent these pressures
11:05from spilling over into everyday household spendings.
11:09It has spilled over already.
11:11For example, the price of milk, the price of bread, etc. has already gone up
11:17in the past couple of months.
11:19But because inflation is not merely an economic statistic,
11:23it is beginning to impact family budgeting as well gradually.
11:28It's a family budgeting issue.
11:30It's a restaurant owner's survival issue.
11:32It's a small vendor's livelihood issue.
11:34And ultimately, it's a consumer issue.
11:38The commercial LPG hike may not hit your kitchen directly,
11:42not tonight, not just yet.
11:44But if these costs continue to rise, they could soon show up
11:48in places where millions of Indians spend every day.
11:52That's restaurants, food stalls, bakeries, event services,
11:54everything that I just told you about.
11:56And that is why this commercial LPG shock deserves attention,
12:02deserves your keen understanding as well.
12:05Not because of what it costs businesses today,
12:08but because of what it could end up costing all of us tomorrow.
12:16To understand how exactly is this cost percolating down, is it percolating down?
12:21How soon?
12:22We thought it would be a good idea to get a quick ground report from our reporters.
12:27Joining me now from Lucknow is Samarth Srivastav.
12:30From Mumbai is Mustafa Sheikh.
12:32And from Hyderabad is Abdul Bashir.
12:35Let me go to Samarth first.
12:37Samarth, take us through where are you exactly?
12:39And how have the increased commercial LPG prices
12:45impacting businesses and also consumers?
12:52Asunaka, I'm currently reporting from Indira Nagant locality of Lucknow.
12:56And right behind me is the famous Globe Cafe of Lucknow.
12:58The tea, Ban Makhan, is quite famous out here.
13:02But they are also facing the heat with the shooting of prices of the LPG,
13:06commercial cylinders in the state capital.
13:09That means Lucknow.
13:10A total of 42 rupees have been increased.
13:12I'll also try to get the sense how these shopkeepers,
13:15how these cafes, small eateries are in a way dealing with all this particular rise.
13:20You see a lot of patties, everything, every stuff, momos.
13:24Whatever the youngsters want, all of this being supplied over here.
13:29And as we get inside this particular shop,
13:30I have been the owner who is calculating the figures currently.
13:33After the rise of price, he is calculating the numbers,
13:36how the numbers have been changing on the diary.
13:38You tell me that the commercial cylinder has 42 rupees and has increased.
13:4240 rupees and has increased here.
13:44But you guys, because all the food and drink,
13:47are you sure that is the difference?
13:49Yes, there is a difference.
13:50There is a difference.
13:51There is a difference.
13:53If it is increasing, then it will be a little bit easier.
13:56It will be a bit worse.
13:57Do you feel new at all?
13:59Do you think there is an increase in 2 or 4 items?
14:02There are loads of rates and other rates have increased.
14:04A beaucoup higher rate.
14:05How the rates are increased?
14:06The one on this on this,
14:07of course the price is increasing at 2-3 rupees.
14:09This is higher than 2-3 rupees.
14:09It is higher than 2-3 rupees.
14:12The other one on this list is changing.
14:13So you don't allow you to make them all the way.
14:16Who doesn't allow you to make them all things.
14:17And they don't allow you to make them all the way.
14:18Then you don't allow machines to have all the way.
14:24because your budget has a little bit bigger.
14:26It's a little bit bigger, but not much.
14:28The rest of the work is the machines, the microwave, the grillers, etc.
14:33I heard that the shop owners have shifted,
14:35some people came to induction, some people came to Kuehle.
14:37A lot of people came to the shopkeepers out here,
14:44the members, it's a good cafe out here,
14:46and if you see, that's impacting.
14:49When you talk about the commercial surrender,
14:50it's not just about the cafes, it's also about the big eateries,
14:53big hotels, restaurants, because Lucknow is something.
14:56When the name Lucknow comes, food stuff comes into your mind,
15:00be it the Tunde Kababi or many other things, the chaat, everything.
15:03And it's going to hurt real bad to those shopkeepers,
15:06to those owners of the eateries who have calculated their budgets
15:09for the previous prices, but now it has been increased by 42 rupees.
15:14Back to you.
15:14Yeah, and it's a bit of a double whammy, no, Samarth,
15:17for these bakery owners to admit that prices have gone up.
15:21Because if they say that, the customers will perhaps not come.
15:26So he's also hesitating.
15:27I could sense a hesitation in which he was speaking as well to you about prices,
15:32saying, no, no, it's manageable, we'll manage,
15:33because nobody wants to slow down.
15:34He's pressing on the use of machines there.
15:36Yes, yes, but that's probably because it's pre-made, right?
15:40But let me get another view.
15:41Let's move to Mumbai next.
15:42Mustafa Sheikh joins us now.
15:44Mustafa, take us through, where exactly are you?
15:47And is there a dilemma at the moment in the minds of these bakery owners,
15:52restaurants owners?
15:53Because not very long ago, the availability of commercial LPG had become such an issue.
15:58Are they saying, even if you raise the price, at least keep providing?
16:02Is that the, you know, sentiment?
16:04Or are they saying these prices are going to hurt?
16:10Yes, first and foremost, they are saying that if they have a business,
16:13they have to keep it running, whatever the situation be.
16:15I am at Mumbai's Crawford Market.
16:17This area is an old market area.
16:20There are a lot of eateries, especially for shoppers.
16:23A lot of people who come for shopping, go to various stores,
16:27go to various restaurants to eat while they are shopping.
16:30The biggest shock came for the restaurant owners,
16:32which was about two and a half months ago,
16:34when the LPG commercial in the supply had immediately halted.
16:38But since then, managing somehow has been the daily business.
16:42We are speaking one of the managers.
16:44You manage the kitchen here.
16:45The LPG supply, which is the fuel for making food,
16:49how is the supply supply?
16:50If we talk about the supply,
16:53we have bought a bottle of 1836 rupiah.
16:57After that, in the last month,
16:58we have more than 1,000 rupiah.
17:01The price is because the price has been increased,
17:01Now, I'm starting now,
17:03I start with June.
17:05The last month,
17:07it took us to almost 3,025,
17:09and then we are at the end of the hour.
17:11This year,
17:11I was thinking,
17:13at the end of the day,
17:14the price was $367 per bottle.
17:17Now,ats of the price is greater than $367 per bottle.
17:30The workers are working.
17:33I had to reduce the amount of people who work.
17:41Because the debt increased.
17:43I have reduced the amount of 5 people.
17:45But the debt increased and the profit increases.
17:48I had to reduce the amount of people.
17:50There was a gas and electric gas.
17:54It increased.
18:07as you rightly said that they cannot increase the price after some point because obviously
18:14the customers cannot buy the entire brand but he has accepted that there were five people who
18:19he had to remove because of this continuous price hike to somewhere be the small medium-scale
18:24indices of people who are making daily wage earnings are somewhere impacted in a small way
18:30or a big way by this high expected all right there mustafa they're bringing an important story how
18:37people are actually laying off in order to you know keep their budgets the same but managing in that
18:42time let's also cut across to Hyderabad Abdul Bashir joins us for more on this Abdul can you find out
18:48from the restaurant where you are or you know the eatery that you're at at the moment on whether
18:55they are immediately increasing prices and if not then what is the way forward for them
19:04well I am right now in Gachiboli area of Hyderabad where they are all corporate companies here and
19:10several of these employees are dependent on the restaurant food during the lunchtime we are right
19:15now at Shagav's restaurant where at this moment the LPG cylinder refueling is ongoing where the empty
19:23cylinders as you can see have been bought in here regularly tens of cylinders per day are changed
19:29here are consumed at this particular restaurant and now the refueling is ongoing there is the employee
19:36who's a supplier here let us understand that in Hyderabad right now 52 rupees have been increased and the
19:42current price here stands at 3,367 aap jitne bhi cylinder supply karte hai kitna yaha par supply
20:03so as you can see that the supplier here says that earlier it was only 30 40 now it's gone
20:08to much
20:09more the restaurant owner is with us Shagav's restaurant owner Rabbani ji is with us sir
20:18how much now you have got its food you can see you can see that the restaurant when we ыХМ
20:24we move beyond the store we have them with our government which we can see in the store
20:29and keep as much faster you don't know the candida gese must come to the store and reach out to
20:45us
20:46we have our own restaurant restaurant in our house
20:49and we are trying to get our knowledge of supply
20:54and we are hoping to get our rate to come in
20:58so we have our own restaurant restaurant
21:00we have a lot of restaurants in Philadelphia
21:02and we have a lot of labor problems
21:05so we have a lot of labor
21:07and we have a lot of people who are going to leave
21:09because of the gas
21:11we have a supply of gas
21:13we have a lot of people
21:21As you can see that it is not only about the increase on the LPG cylinders but the other
21:27commodities are severely affected is what the restaurant owners have to say several other
21:33small restaurants have been you know closed the roadside eateries in Hyderabad have been closed
21:40with the previous increase in the prices but several other restaurants are right now functioning
21:44but they say they are still struggling to do so let me show you this is not only you know
21:49Hyderabad is
21:50famous for chai and biryani and both of them fortunately function on the LPG cylinders and
21:56the shortage is affecting the food industry is what the you know the industry people here the
22:03food industry people or the you know association has to say now 52 rupees is the increase of LPG
22:09cylinder price with taking the current domestic I'm sorry a commercial LPG cylinder
22:15of 19 kgs to 3367 here in Hyderabad over to you
22:20all right Abdul Bashir there bringing us a report from Hyderabad so different shopkeepers handling it
22:29differently in different towns some are saying we have moved over our mode of cooking others saying
22:35we've had to fire people because we can't bring up rate it will impact customer footfall and then the
22:41third kind who are saying we are just glad that the flow is still coming we'll manage the prices
22:45somehow so that's the story of inflation both wholesale and retail picking up in the country
22:54is this the last of what we have seen experts are saying not yet all right having understood that let's
23:03move
23:03on to the other big story we are tracking we continue to keep our focus on five life on the
23:08cbsc issue
23:09so if there's one thing students are taught from childhood it is this if you make a mistake take
23:18responsibility for it but tonight thousands of cbsc students are asking a simple question when the
23:26system makes a mistake who takes responsibility then let's start with where things stand right now now
23:35the cbsc revaluation portal is still not open students cannot even begin the process of contesting
23:42their marks the post result portal had been facing persistent technical glitches since the result came
23:48out on the 13th of me after a massive public outcry on this show students came out to say that
23:53we want
23:53the revaluation window to open the government said all right let's reopen it the date was set for 29th of
24:00may but it could not reopen on 29th of may glitches we are told that day itself the board announced
24:08another delay and said that okay now june 1st is when it will happen by the time of the recording
24:15of
24:16the show the portal has still not opened second time around where a technical glitch has appeared
24:23and as of today the cbsc officials are only saying and telling news agencies that the portal will start soon
24:31we
24:31don't know when we are continuously trying and i'm sure so are lakhs of students but it's not up just
24:37yet this is the
24:38second time like i said the board has moved the globe the goalpost on students who are already waiting already
24:44anxious already out of options and this delay sits on top of an already big controversy that has been
24:53building for weeks the board has acknowledged lapses in the rollout of the on-screen marking the osm system
25:00congress has alleged that some answer sheet copies provided to students appear to be phone clicked images
25:05raising issues about the quality and integrity of the digitization process altogether and then
25:13there is a serious question of cost after significant pressure cbsc did reduce its fee the scanned copy
25:21is now 100 per subject down to 700 verification of marks and verification of marks is 100 per subject
25:30down from 500 remember there are two things that happen you first apply and pay for getting photocopies
25:37then you apply and pay for getting your uh you know paper re-evaluated and verified right so what was
25:44the
25:45system the scanned copy from 700 came down to 100 the verification of marks that is just calculation itself
25:52came down from 500 to 100 and re-evaluation that happens per question that came down to 25 rupees from
26:00100 bucks now this reduction was announced on the 17th of may by the education ministry following student
26:07complaints about the osm system on this program like i said students continuously came and said that we want
26:12that evaluation window to open the debate however is no longer just about marks it's about a system that
26:19acknowledged errors reduced fees only under pressure and then could not even keep up with its own portal running
26:26when errors happen who pays the price and why are students still the ones waiting for the answers like
26:32i said second time around second date given the portal is still not working which brings me to the other
26:42aspect of cbsc i want to tell you now the story of two students two students who have exposed the
26:54cbsc system
26:56on two different aspects one on how badly constructed the entire osm system was
27:03how it was so easy to be hacked in just 30 minutes and they gave warnings to cbsc did not
27:08listen
27:09and the other story is that of corruption
27:15so listen in sartak siddhant is a 17 year old class tell student from rachi jharkhand
27:21he's also appeared in the 2025 26 batch he is one of the roughly 17 lakh students whose answer sheets
27:28were graded this year through cbsc's new osm system the on-screen marking system now when his own
27:34results came back some of the scanned pages were blurred and the suspected checking and marking errors
27:39could be seen now instead of just filling in for re-evaluation he started digging a little deeper
27:46over seven days he combed through cbsc's tendering process tender documents on the public procurement
27:54portal that is put on scrapping all 576 of the board's listed tenders and tracking how the rules
28:00changed across successive rounds of bidding for the osm contract and what did he do he got all that
28:09information crunched looked at the data he published his findings on the website and he called it how
28:17cbsc rewrote the rules to favor coempt edu tech now what is his central claim here he's saying that cbsc
28:29didn't just pick a weak vendor by accident it rewrote the eligibility technical and security requirements
28:37across three tenders so that one specific firm coempt edu tech could qualify and win at the cost of data
28:45security and at the cost of students results and their future the vendor coempt edu tech matters here
28:54because he was previously known as globarena technologies the company behind the 2019 telangana
29:00intermediate exam disaster suicides had happened horrible horrible case
29:06so you know there was a software failure there wrongly failed lacks of students linked multiple
29:12students suicides as well globarena rebranded itself as coempt after that crisis and all of this is
29:19mentioned in his blog the blog has gone viral and i have now spoken to sarthak seen the evidence that
29:29he's
29:29got and i've picked out for you because it's a complicated mess i've picked out for you eight points
29:36eight ways in which a class 12 student has exposed cbsc he has exposed how cbsc bent rules to favor
29:48one
29:48company
29:51so what i have for you now is what was the tendering process before
29:58and what was the tendering process after okay so look at these graphics carefully i've tried to
30:03simplify it for you as much as possible okay number one discrepancy is of past failures that did not matter
30:11that there was a rule earlier within the cbsc tendering process that banned vendors with a history of
30:20botched up contracts and sort of deleted entirely
30:26that has been rebranded poor performance meant that you could not qualify at all
30:34now it means that that clause in the new one the clause has been deleted
30:39number two let's move to that rebranded to escape a bad record why am i saying that because what
30:46happened in earlier there was a blacklisting clause the blacklisting clause earlier said that
30:54if you have ever been blacklisted you cannot apply but the new changed blacklisting clauses
31:02is that if you are only currently blacklisted you cannot apply
31:09so co-em was previously blacklisted old identity global arena walked in clean
31:17number three sort of squeaked through on turnover the turnover requirement in the tendering process is
31:27precisely 50 crore threshold
31:32and guess how much is the turnover for co-em 50.86 just about making it
31:43number four lowering the bar so that co-em's exact level is met and this is important to remember
31:51because they have something called a cmmi level it's a level which tells you how apt your software is
32:02and the standards that the software really has it's the capability maturity model integration
32:10five is supposed to be very good three is supposed to be average or low
32:17the earlier tender had five now the revised one has three
32:23just the level that co-em needed and there's another one number five let's move to that
32:30there was earlier a cooling off period of hiring sort of people or who have been associated with the cbsc
32:39all right so the cool off period with the earlier tenders used to be two years if you ever worked
32:44with
32:44cbsc or you have association etc you need a two year to cool off period to re-enter or you
32:50know apply
32:51a tender now it has been reduced to one
32:56let's move to number six
33:00evaluation system all together
33:04the previous tender said that the project quality value mattered meaning they just did not see how many
33:12projects you had done but they saw how many students gave feedback how many students actually
33:16sat for it what was the quality and the result that came out of it the new tender did not
33:22give any
33:23weightage to the quality it gave weightage to volume how many projects have you done all together
33:30irrespective of the feedback you got on that project
33:33why would cbsc do that you ask i ask sartak asked no answer from cbsc which brings me to point
33:43number seven
33:45and this is really important hardware ownership the previous tender said that you must own a data center
33:56tender it is mandatory the new tender says that you can have cloud hosting
34:04it's fine if you're using somebody else's you don't need a data center of your own
34:09why
34:13and number eight
34:16this is on software now software ownership
34:21the previous tender or the original tender as we are calling it said that the source code should be owned
34:29by the company now it has changed to saying that it could be built on another system third party
34:39that requirement has been removed
34:43compromised on hardware compromised on software compromised on the quality
34:48compromised also on cool off period compromised also on the markers that are required on the marking
34:59that you get on how good or bad the company is five to three
35:05and the final blow right before bids were submitted cbsc quietly removed its own power to blacklist the
35:14winning bender even if everything failed coempt could not be barred from future government work
35:23isn't that interesting
35:29all these are discrepancies all these are changes that have been spotted by this one boy who's a class 12
35:37student himself he has put out all the details with all the evidence of before and after tenders
35:43on his website i have seen it and this is where it's come down to so the question why did
35:52cbsc do it
35:53because you know the other important story here cbsc in the end had two companies to finalize from
36:01coempt and tcs
36:04tcs the company that has rock solid infrastructure
36:08handle so many other projects in the country but tcs did not win the bind coempt got it cbsc now
36:16has to
36:16answer why that happened cbsc refused to join the program but we do have
36:23principals vice principals teachers to make us understand and make sense of this a little bit
36:29from what sharma joins us now he's the vice president and founding director principal of genesis global
36:35school in noida hi sir welcome five life thank you so much for your time i've just laid out the
36:42massive
36:43expose which has been done by class 12 students themselves like i said this is not a political
36:48party this is not somebody within agenda this is just a student who looked into the tendering process and
36:56said this is where it stands is this an active conversation within the teaching community at the moment
37:03on how things are run at cbsc
37:07you see i have been involved with cbsc on the board of cbsc and as a teacher and principal
37:15i go back to 2014 when there was a pilot project done on osm so way back in 2014 we
37:27had tried
37:28but this time perhaps because the that was only a pilot project for a limited
37:35number of children but that was 2014 and today the technology is so much available i refuse to believe
37:43that cbsc does not have competent people they are extremely competent people who have been who have
37:51worked in national testing agency and otherwise and they can easily do it i i i am not privy to
38:00the
38:01contracts that you are talking about and i'm not privy to the in the inside uh situation but all i
38:10can all i can say is that this is very unfortunate and the cbsc as you said right in the
38:18beginning must
38:19take ownership of the mistake and must come out with corrective measure the children cannot suffer
38:26and children cannot be allowed to be penalized for no fault of theirs yeah but
38:34tramud this is the conversation sir here is that over the weekend what did we see we saw a lot
38:41of
38:41students come out on social media teachers beg your pardon a lot of teachers came out in support of
38:47cbsc then there was the entire story of the toolkit of how there are messages mass messages being sent
38:53to uphold the reputation of cbsc it's been forwarded by cbsc handlers to teachers etc did you witness that at
39:01your end yes i've seen that that that that is kind of thing happening principles coming out
39:07and saying that yes we certify that cbsc is very competent the same thing i said but i said on
39:16the
39:16past history and knowing the people in cbsc uh there is no doubt that they are competent but something
39:23has happened and accountability must must happen and people who are responsible for this particular
39:32problem should not go scot-free all right mr sharma there thank you so much for joining us with your
39:40thoughts on this one mr sharma they're telling us that he does think that there are questions valid or
39:47not should be decided or at least there should be an inquiry cbsc needs to come out and explain
39:55itself and most of all give an explanation not to the media not to the opposition not to the
40:01politicians but to the students students who work their life out to try and get that score
40:09all right on that note we are on to our last segment here on the program uh every day now
40:14moving forward
40:15we'll try to end the show with a bit of a health tip so in today's health tip for you
40:20we are bringing
40:21you the story of multivitamins everybody's talking about it there are loads of them out in the market
40:28but you should you really be going out for one the story tells you why
40:53so the supplement industry does not want you to know this but the daily multivitamin that you pop
41:00thinking it's going to save you from all diseases is doing nothing for your body
41:04we are talking about dr suranjit chattalji he's an internal medicine specialist at apollo hospital
41:08in this video we'll give you five reasons why your multivitamins simply do not work number one so
41:16most vitamins in the pill are water soluble which means that once your body hits the limit it flushes
41:21out the rest meaning you know through your urine you're just making expensive pee reason number two
41:26these pills have minerals like calcium and iron all sitting together in one single pill but calcium
41:31cuts iron absorption iron blocks zinc so you're not getting 15 nutrients you're getting a fraction of
41:37each because they are all competing for the same spot the label says complete nutrition or you know
41:43your one dose to daily vitamins but it's not complete nutrition in reality it's a complete chaos which brings
41:49me to reason number three and this is the one that really shocked us all vitamins are found in different
41:54food as well carrot for example a study found that smokers who took the beta carotene containing
41:59dietary supplements had a stronger chance of developing lung cancer than those who did not
42:03so it's the same nutrient food may safe a pill may potentially harmful reason number four then a lot of
42:10these supplements are sold in the name of improving your longevity but studies published in jama network
42:15you know highly credible medical journal from the american medical association they followed about 3
42:19lakh 90 000 us adults for 20 years and found no evidence that daily multivitamin use improves longevity
42:27or even reduces mortality risk from cancer or even any cardiovascular disease and then there is reason
42:33number five have you ever actually gotten a blood test done to check deficiencies because you are taking
42:3920 nutrients without knowing which one you're actually deficient in that's like eating an entire medicine
42:44cabinet because you feel slightly off what you need is one targeted supplement for your actual deficiency
42:51that will do more to your body than these multivitamin pills ever will so what's the bottom line here well
42:58talk to your doctor check your blood work see what you're actually deficient in and go for the targeted
43:03therapy here's the catch that these multivitamins are completely useless not really for people who are
43:08pregnant people who are recovering from surgery a lot of adults with severe deficiencies
43:16so get your blood test first and also follow health wealth for all the information you need
43:22that is doctor verified
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