Surprisingly, there is alarming drop in the skill training centers and the number of youth trained in Andhra Pradesh over the years under the central government-sponsoredDeen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana(DDUGKY).While 15,882 youth have received skill training in 2019-20, the number had come down worryingly to 629 in 2021-22. Even the number of training centers too had come down from 130 in 2019-20 to 80 in 2021-22, said Union minister ofstatefor rural development.

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Only Srikakulam and Vizianagaram districts have seen a slight increase in the number of training centers in the last three consecutive years, while the centers in the rest of the 11 districts have come down.