Around 620 Kendras nationwide channel rural and non-student youth into clubs, camps, sports, and volunteering.
12% of young men in Kathua read a newspaper regularly, behind the typical district. 69.4% use the internet, better than the typical district. MY Bharat and the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan build on this base to organise youth for civic and community participation.
84% of registered enterprises are in services while 16% are in manufacturing. Only 4% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 70% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Kathua, which ranks 7 of 20 in Jammu and Kashmir for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 53.1 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on women who read a newspaper regularly at 23.4%, women using the internet at 56.5% and higher-education enrolment at 24%. On young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 50%, it sits close to the national mark.