Pillar: Opportunity Infrastructure
Sri Sathya Sai disburses ₹38,551 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 67.4 youth per lakh under short-term skilling, behind the typical district. The Rural Self Employment Training Institute prepares rural youth to use credit like this to start their own enterprise.
62% of registered enterprises are in services while 38% are in manufacturing. Only 1% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. Only 49% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12). Only 25% of ITI trainers are certified.
In Sri Sathya Sai, which ranks 26 of 27 in Andhra Pradesh for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 43.6 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 56.5%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 96.9%, self-employed workers at 53.1% and women-owned enterprises at 31.2%, it sits close to the national mark.
Mandated services and how to locate the RSETI in Sri Sathya Sai are in the Sri Sathya Sai district course and the English reference guide (Hindi). See the Sri Sathya Sai youth opportunity scorecard for the full district picture.