Pillar: Opportunity Infrastructure
Surajpur disburses ₹10,154 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 363.3 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.
85% of registered enterprises are in services while 15% are in manufacturing. Only 4% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. Only 57% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12). Only 19% of ITI trainers are certified.
In Surajpur, which ranks 31 of 33 in Chhattisgarh for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 40.8 out of 100. The district runs ahead of the national picture on young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 68.4%, while it lags on self-employed workers at 77.5%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 94.3% and women-owned enterprises at 7.7%, it sits close to the national mark.
Mandated services and how to locate the RSETI in Surajpur are in the Surajpur district course and the English reference guide (Hindi). See the Surajpur youth opportunity scorecard for the full district picture.