A Common Facility Centre giving traditional craft clusters shared machinery, training, design help, and market access.
Saharsa has 8,850 manufacturing MSMEs. 33.6% of self-employment loans go to the district's top industry. The Common Facility Centre under SFURTI gives artisan clusters shared equipment they could not afford individually.
75% of registered enterprises are in services while 25% are in manufacturing. Small and medium enterprises account for 2.7% of MSME employment. Enrolment in classes 9 to 12 equals 36% of the population of that age.
In Saharsa, which ranks 14 of 38 in Bihar for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 43.1 out of 100. It trails the national picture on employment in small and medium enterprises at 2.7%, against 3.3% nationally. On value added per enterprise worker at ₹1,30,513, it sits close to the national mark.