Pillar: Opportunity Infrastructure
Bandipore disburses ₹44,386 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 3,761 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.
58% of registered enterprises are in services while 42% are in manufacturing. Only 1% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. Only 37% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Bandipore, which ranks 15 of 20 in Jammu and Kashmir for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 49.4 out of 100. On skilling trainees who get certified at 95.2%, self-employed workers at 61.3%, women-owned enterprises at 30.9% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 47.1%, it sits close to the national mark.
Mandated services and how to locate the RSETI in Bandipore are in the Bandipore district course and the English reference guide (Hindi). See the Bandipore youth opportunity scorecard for the full district picture.