A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute giving rural youth one to six week courses, with food and lodging covered.
Kachchh disburses ₹21,585 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 96.1 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 13% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. Only 51% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Kachchh, which ranks 14 of 33 in Gujarat for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 48.3 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on self-employed workers at 50.9%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 95.3%, women-owned enterprises at 36.5% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 43.3%, it sits close to the national mark.