This ‘Kaushal Bharat Kushal Bharat Yojana’ website inviting applications using the name of Ministry of Skill Development is fraudulent - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
November 13, 2023
A widely circulated website, ‘kbkbygov.online,’ is asking individuals to register for a free application to allegedly access the benefits of a government scheme named ‘Kaushal Bharat Kushal Bharat Yojana.’ The website claims that they are affiliated with the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: This website is inviting applications ‘Kaushal Bharat Kushal Bharat Yojana’ scheme under the Ministry of Skill Development.
Fact: The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship is not implementing any such scheme with the name ‘Kaushal Bharat Kushal Bharat Yojana’. The purported website inviting applications with the name ‘Kaushal Bharat Kushal Bharat Yojana’ is fake and is not associated with the Ministry of Skill Development in any way. Hence, the claim made in the post is False.
The URL link of the purported ‘Kaushal Bharat Kushal Bharat Yojana’ website is not affiliated in any way with the official Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship website of the Government of India. Upon entering the requested information in the application and clicking the submit button, the website directs you to another page with a message stating, “Dear Applicant, your application has been successfully accepted. You can also share it on WhatsApp with your friends to apply so that your friends can also avail of the benefits of this scheme, thank you” (when translated from Hindi to English). No government website provides such options after the application process.
The domain ‘kbkbygov.online’ was registered in September 2023 by “HOSTINGER operations, UAB.” According to information obtained from the ‘Whois’ website, the registrant’s location was identified in the state of Massachusetts, United States.
The list of schemes implemented by the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship can be seen here. The Ministry of Skill Development is not implementing any scheme with the name ‘Kaushal Bharat Kushal Bharat Yojana’. ‘Kaushal Bharat Kushal Bharat’ is a tagline used by the government for the Skill India initiative. But no scheme with the name ‘Kaushal Bharat Kushal Bharat Yojana’ was implemented by the government.
Earlier, the PIB Fact Check issued multiple clarifications regarding similar fake websites claiming to be associated with the Ministry of Skill Development. We reached out to PIB Fact Check for further clarification regarding this viral website. This article will be updated once we receive a response from them.
To sum it up, this ‘Kaushal Bharat Kushal Bharat Yojana’ website claimed to be associated with the Ministry of Skill Development scheme is fraudulent.