Pillar: Opportunity Infrastructure
Sabar Kantha disburses ₹26,082 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 126.5 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.
77% of registered enterprises are in services while 23% are in manufacturing. Only 8% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. Only 55% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12). Only 24% of ITI trainers are certified.
In Sabar Kantha, which ranks 12 of 33 in Gujarat for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 49 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 54.8%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 96.7%, self-employed workers at 54.5% and women-owned enterprises at 26.9%, it sits close to the national mark.
Mandated services and how to locate the RSETI in Sabar Kantha are in the Sabar Kantha district course and the English reference guide (Hindi). See the Sabar Kantha youth opportunity scorecard for the full district picture.