Overview
- On Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2026, Congress communications chief Jairam Ramesh posted a screenshot of a media report charging that PM-DAKSH had not been implemented for over two years.
- Ramesh said expenditure under the scheme remained at zero during that period and that budgets earmarked in earlier years went unutilised.
- PM-DAKSH is a central-sector skill-training scheme launched in 2020–21 to give institutional training and boost jobs or self-employment for SCs, OBCs, EWS groups, denotified and nomadic tribes, and sanitation workers.
- The Congress framed the allegations as a wider political and moral critique, saying the government favours publicity over delivery and arguing the lapses show a failure to protect marginalised groups.
- The published reports rest on a media story shared by Ramesh and do not record an official government response or an independent audit confirming the financial or implementation claims.