Andhra Pradesh Finance Minister Buggana Rajendranath Reddy on September 22 (Friday) said that students were fooled in the name of skill training during the tenure of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in the State.
Making a statement on the skill development scam case on the floor of the Assembly, the Finance Minister said that contrary to the TDP’s claim that lakhs of students had benefited from its skill development programmes, the government records showed that only 7,893 students were trained in JNTU-Kakinada between 2018-19 and 2022-23 fiscal years, while 16,072 students were imparted training in JNTU-Anantapur between 2016-17 and 2021-22 financial years.
“Interestingly, all these students were enrolled during the same period and they had completed the training within five days —from March 12, 2018 to March 17, 2018—” he said, wondering if a five-day session was a training or a mere demonstration.
