A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute giving rural youth one to six week courses, with food and lodging covered.
Lower Dibang Valley disburses ₹3,164 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 1,654.5 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.
74% of registered enterprises are in services while 26% are in manufacturing. Only 4% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. Only 48% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Lower Dibang Valley, which ranks 4 of 27 in Arunachal Pradesh for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 52.9 out of 100. It trails the national picture on self-employed workers at 72.1%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 98.5%, women-owned enterprises at 31.7% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 49.7%, it sits close to the national mark.