A community institute offering free 2 to 6 month courses in tailoring, beauty, food processing and electrical work.
Latehar trains 151.8 youth per lakh under short-term skilling programmes, behind the typical district. 18.4% 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.
80% of registered enterprises are in services while 20% are in manufacturing. Only 2% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. Only 56% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Latehar, which ranks 17 of 24 in Jharkhand for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 43 out of 100. On skilling trainees who get certified at 96% and women in the labour force at 48.4%, it sits close to the national mark.