⚠️ THIS IS WHERE YOUR TAX MONEY ACTUALLY WENT
While you were paying GST, TDS, fuel taxes, and EMIs — while you were told to be patient because “reforms take time” — over ₹10,000 crore meant to skill India’s unemployed youth quietly vanished.
Not into development.
Not into jobs.
But into fake bank accounts, ghost training centres, recycled photographs, and NGO balance sheets.
This is not an allegation from activists or opposition parties.
This is the finding of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.
And the audit is devastating.
1️⃣ THE NUMBER THAT SHOULD HAVE ENDED CAREERS
Under the Skill india Mission:
₹12,574 crore was allocated
95% of beneficiary bank accounts were fake or invalid
Read that again.
Not 5%.
Not 15%.
Ninety-five percent.
Some account numbers were so fake they didn’t even try to hide it:
11111111
This isn’t sloppiness.
This is audacity.
2️⃣ FAKE PEOPLE, REAL PAYMENTS
According to the audit:
The same photographs were reused across multiple states
One “candidate” was trained in different locations simultaneously
Biometric attendance was fabricated
Centres that were officially “operational” were physically closed
Yet payments continued to flow.
This wasn’t a leak in the system.
This was the system.
3️⃣ TRAINING CENTRES THAT EXISTED ONLY ON POWERPOINT
On paper:
Thousands of centres
Lakhs of youth trained
Certificates issued
On ground:
Locked buildings
No trainers
No equipment
No students
The audit found that nearly half of the so-called trained youth cannot even be traced today.
They were numbers — not people.
4️⃣ THE BIG LIE: “SKILLING LEADS TO JOBS.”
This was the selling point.
The reality?
Only 18% placement rate
Certificates with zero market value
No employer verification
No tracking after payout
youth remained unemployed.
But NGOs didn’t.
5️⃣ WHO BENEFITED? NOT THE YOUTH
Let’s be very clear.
This money did not disappear into thin air.
It went to:
Middlemen
Shell NGOs
Training partners with political connections
Consultants and aggregators
While:
The youth stayed jobless
Certificates meant nothing
Accountability never came
This was upward redistribution disguised as welfare.
6️⃣ SIX YEARS. zero ACCOUNTABILITY.
The most damning part?
This audit covers years of implementation.
And yet:
No mass prosecutions
No recovery of funds
No ministerial resignations
No systemic overhaul
When ₹10,000+ crore disappears, and nobody is punished, it sends one message:
This wasn’t a failure. It was protected.
7️⃣ WHY THIS IS WORSE THAN A REGULAR SCAM
Most scams steal money.
This one stole:
Money
Time
Hope
An entire generation’s trust
Young indians were told:
“Get skilled. Jobs will follow.”
They did.
Jobs didn’t.
🧨 FINAL VERDICT: THIS WAS LOOT, NOT LEAKAGE
Let’s stop pretending this was incompetence.
Fake accounts don’t happen accidentally
Reused photos aren’t clerical errors
Ghost centres don’t pass unnoticed
This was industrial-scale looting, wrapped in the language of empowerment.
You paid the tax.
The youth paid with unemployment.
Someone else walked away rich.
And until accountability begins at the top, not the bottom —
Skill india will remain a case study in how public money is stolen in plain sight.
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