A community institute offering free 2 to 6 month courses in tailoring, beauty, food processing and electrical work.
Pulwama trains 1,721.8 youth per lakh under short-term skilling programmes, better than the typical district. 5.6% 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.
70% of registered enterprises are in services while 30% are in manufacturing. Only 4% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. Only 50% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Pulwama, which ranks 2 of 20 in Jammu and Kashmir for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 55.4 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on women in the labour force at 62.7%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 95.1%, it sits close to the national mark.