A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute giving rural youth one to six week courses, with food and lodging covered.
Lakhimpur disburses ₹25,996 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 438 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.
58% of registered enterprises are in services while 42% are in manufacturing. Only 2% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 69% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Lakhimpur, which ranks 6 of 35 in Assam for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 47.4 out of 100. On skilling trainees who get certified at 93%, self-employed workers at 59.8%, women-owned enterprises at 22.5% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 49.8%, it sits close to the national mark.