Pillar: Opportunity Infrastructure
Anantapur disburses ₹38,551 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 415.5 youth per lakh under short-term skilling, better than the typical district. The Rural Self Employment Training Institute prepares rural youth to use credit like this to start their own enterprise.
77% of registered enterprises are in services while 23% are in manufacturing. Only 3% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 64% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12). Only 40% of ITI trainers are certified.
In Anantapur, which ranks 25 of 27 in Andhra Pradesh for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 44.3 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on self-employed workers at 48.6%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 89.5%, women-owned enterprises at 26.5% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 51%, it sits close to the national mark.
Mandated services and how to locate the RSETI in Anantapur are in the Anantapur district course and the English reference guide (Hindi). See the Anantapur youth opportunity scorecard for the full district picture.