A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute giving rural youth one to six week courses, with food and lodging covered.
Kamrup Metropolitan disburses ₹60,526 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 753 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.
81% of registered enterprises are in services while 19% are in manufacturing. Only 14% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 81% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Kamrup Metropolitan, which ranks 1 of 35 in Assam for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 60.6 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on self-employed workers at 38.8%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 95.4%, women-owned enterprises at 19.2% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 51.8%, it sits close to the national mark.