A community institute offering free 2 to 6 month courses in tailoring, beauty, food processing and electrical work.
Hamirpur trains 1,400.2 youth per lakh under short-term skilling programmes, better than the typical district. 16.1% of young women aged 15 to 21 are out of education, better than the typical district. The Jan Shikshan Sansthan focuses non-formal skilling on dropouts and women who need a route back into livelihoods without returning to a classroom.
83% of registered enterprises are in services while 17% are in manufacturing. Only 3% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 99% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Hamirpur, which ranks 4 of 12 in Himachal Pradesh for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 56.1 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on women in the labour force at 86.8%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 93.9%, it sits close to the national mark.