Pillar: Opportunity Infrastructure
Dadra and Nagar Haveli disburses ₹6,714 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 124.1 youth per lakh under short-term skilling, behind the typical district. The Rural Self Employment Training Institute prepares rural youth to use credit like this to start their own enterprise.
78% of registered enterprises are in services while 22% are in manufacturing. Only 18% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. Only 48% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12). Only 12% of ITI trainers are certified.
In Dadra and Nagar Haveli, which ranks 2 of 3 in Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 54.6 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on self-employed workers at 18.7% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 56.3%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 93.7% and women-owned enterprises at 30.5%, it sits close to the national mark.
Mandated services and how to locate the RSETI in Dadra and Nagar Haveli are in the Dadra and Nagar Haveli district course and the English reference guide (Hindi). See the Dadra and Nagar Haveli youth opportunity scorecard for the full district picture.