Pillar: Opportunity Infrastructure
Kinnaur disburses ₹39,380 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 1,809.1 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.
76% of registered enterprises are in services while 24% are in manufacturing. Only 2% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. Only 56% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12). Only 43% of ITI trainers are certified.
In Kinnaur, which ranks 7 of 12 in Himachal Pradesh for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 54.8 out of 100. The district runs ahead of the national picture on young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 58.5%, while it lags on skilling trainees who get certified at 83.4%. On self-employed workers at 56.9% and women-owned enterprises at 29.6%, it sits close to the national mark.
Mandated services and how to locate the RSETI in Kinnaur are in the Kinnaur district course and the English reference guide (Hindi). See the Kinnaur youth opportunity scorecard for the full district picture.