A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute giving rural youth one to six week courses, with food and lodging covered.
Lahaul and Spiti disburses ₹41,148 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 224.9 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.
88% of registered enterprises are in services while 12% are in manufacturing. Only 1% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. Only 51% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Lahaul and Spiti, which ranks 12 of 12 in Himachal Pradesh for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 51.7 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 68.8%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 100%, self-employed workers at 60.8% and women-owned enterprises at 25.7%, it sits close to the national mark.