Sarthak Sidhant, a class 12 student who gained notoriety recently for his analysis of the Central Board of Secondary Education's digital evaluation tender, has developed a public portal with about 1.66 crore records from the Central Public Procurement (CPP) Portal of the Government of India.
Sidhant wrote, "Transparency needs to be accessible," when announcing the project on X. It is as of right now. He said that around 1.66 crore procurement documents had been scraped from the CPP Portal over the previous two weeks and made publicly accessible for people, journalists, and researchers to examine.
A PUSH FOR OPEN DATA
The most recent portal extends that effort outside of the classroom. Sidhant claims that the database is designed to facilitate the search and analysis of public spending records and contains procurement data that has been stored from the government's CPP Portal.His conclusions regarding the CBSE tender had previously made it to Parliament, when he spoke before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education to provide his thoughts on the procurement procedure and evaluation system.
Sidhant says he thinks more individuals would independently examine government records and help increase public accountability with the launch of the procurement database.

A PUPIL QUESTIONING THE SYSTEM
After releasing a thorough examination of the CBSE's On-Screen Marking (OSM) system and procurement documents pertaining to the digital review of Class 12 answer sheets, Sidhant first gained national notice.
After getting scanned copies of his own response sheets and observing discrepancies in the grades given, he started his inquiry. He looked at several publicly accessible versions of CBSE procurement paperwork as more students voiced concerns about transparency in digital evaluation.
Sidhant claims to have noticed variations in certification requirements, performance terms, and eligibility restrictions throughout the bidding process. He maintained that these changes brought up significant issues with public procurement transparency.Discussions about how young researchers may use publicly available data to increase transparency have already been spurred by the effort.