A Common Facility Centre giving traditional craft clusters shared machinery, training, design help, and market access.
Gumla has 2,196 manufacturing MSMEs. 67.4% of self-employment loans go to the district's top industry. The Common Facility Centre under SFURTI gives artisan clusters shared equipment they could not afford individually.
82% of registered enterprises are in services while 18% are in manufacturing. Small and medium enterprises account for 2.3% of MSME employment. Enrolment in classes 9 to 12 equals 47% of the population of that age.
In Gumla, which ranks 20 of 24 in Jharkhand for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 42 out of 100. It trails the national picture on employment in small and medium enterprises at 2.3%, against 3.3% nationally and value added per enterprise worker at ₹1,21,183, against ₹1,43,689 nationally.