Puttaparthi trust launches 38-day free Tally-with-GST course for 35 EWS women

Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust managing trustee R.J. Rathnakar on 6 September 2026 launched a 38-day free ‘Tally with GST’ training programme for 35 women from economically weaker sections in Puttaparthi, Sri Sathya Sai district. The programme is supported by Canara Bank’s Rural Self Employment Training Institute and Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisations. A permanent skill centre is planned in Puttaparthi. Accounts software plus GST compliance is practical literacy for micro shops and home enterprises that otherwise buy commercial coaching.

State organisation president R. Lakshmana Rao said about 20,000 youth had been trained in four years across Andhra Pradesh, with 23 permanent skill centres already functioning. The Development card is a skilling intake — not a finished employment guarantee for all 35 trainees. Trust-and-bank partnerships in Rayalaseema often live or die on whether a first cohort becomes a second; the planned permanent centre is the scale signal in this tip.

Readers should hold the locked numbers: 38 days, 35 EWS women, roughly 20,000 youth over four years, 23 permanent centres, and a new permanent centre planned at Puttaparthi. District naming stays Sri Sathya Sai with Puttaparthi as the town. This cutting does not invent stipend amounts, placement percentages, or a State subsidy line that was not locked. Money style stays ₹ plus numeral when amounts appear; here the public lead is free training rather than a crore outlay.

Skilling desks in Rayalaseema often track whether trust-and-bank partnerships convert into repeat cohorts. A Tally-with-GST batch is practical literacy for micro enterprises and shop accounts. Development copy should refuse invented corporate partners beyond Canara Bank RSETI and the Seva Organisations named in the tip, and should keep the launch speaker as R.J. Rathnakar on 6 September. Until placement numbers are published, the locked story ends at the free course launch and the statewide training tally already claimed by the State organisation president.

Puttaparthi’s 38-day free Tally-with-GST batch for 35 EWS women adds one more node to a statewide skill map the State organisation president already counts at about 20,000 youth and 23 permanent centres in four years. Canara Bank RSETI and Sri Sathya Sai Seva Organisations are the locked partners beside the Central Trust launch by R.J. Rathnakar. A permanent centre planned in town is the scale promise; placement rates are not locked. Development readers should watch whether the women’s cohort is followed by a published second batch, not invent stipend figures the tip never gave.