There always has been, just as there has always been the "There's a worldwide shortage of pilots, the government will pay for it" snake oil salesmen ready to sign up yet another wannabee using OUR money. There is no justification for it and apparently no accountability in terms of numbers actually getting employed at the end of the course to qualify for the next round of funding. But good luck getting those snouts out of the trough, remember whatever minister it was in a video saying "Neel is exactly the kind of young entrepreneur this country needs"
So much money wasted on 20%"admin fees", indexation, silly uniforms, "GA Ready courses" etc that could have been spent on getting a decent chunk of command time in remote areas and a good chance of actually landing a job.