Hyderabad, Nov. 6 -- By the time candidates in the Telangana Overseas Manpower Company Ltd's (TOMCOM) German Ausbildung (vocational training) programme were asked to sign an agreement, they had moved to Hyderabad, started classes and paid about Rs 1.28 lakh each.

The document, a Candidate Agreement Form (CAF) from TOMCOM's private implementation partner, Fairstreet India Pvt Ltd, arrived a week or more after training began, candidates from all three batches of the Ausbildung programme told Siasat.com. Some signed it more than once over what they were told were "format issues."

The three batches trained between October 2024 and August 2025, according to data TOMCOM shared with Siasat.com.

The CAF repeated the no-refund rule that TOMCOM'...