Pillar: Opportunity Infrastructure
Kurukshetra disburses ₹44,649 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 489.5 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.
79% of registered enterprises are in services while 21% are in manufacturing. Only 4% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 67% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12). Only 24% of ITI trainers are certified.
In Kurukshetra, which ranks 16 of 22 in Haryana for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 52.3 out of 100. The district runs ahead of the national picture on self-employed workers at 35.2%, while it lags on young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 37.1%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 96.8% and women-owned enterprises at 33.6%, it sits close to the national mark.
Mandated services and how to locate the RSETI in Kurukshetra are in the Kurukshetra district course and the English reference guide (Hindi). See the Kurukshetra youth opportunity scorecard for the full district picture.