A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute giving rural youth one to six week courses, with food and lodging covered.
Lepa Rada disburses ₹1,920 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 316.7 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.
72% of registered enterprises are in services while 28% are in manufacturing. Only 3% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. Only 44% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Lepa Rada, which ranks 19 of 27 in Arunachal Pradesh for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 47.4 out of 100. It trails the national picture on self-employed workers at 72.1%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 100%, women-owned enterprises at 27.7% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 49.7%, it sits close to the national mark.