Pillar: Opportunity Infrastructure
Bengaluru Urban disburses ₹38,149 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 299.5 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.
77% of registered enterprises are in services while 23% are in manufacturing. Only 13% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. Only 34% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12). 74% of ITI trainers are certified.
In Bengaluru Urban, which ranks 1 of 31 in Karnataka for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 65.2 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on self-employed workers at 25.5%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 96%, women-owned enterprises at 32.4% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 50.5%, it sits close to the national mark.
Mandated services and how to locate the RSETI in Bengaluru Urban are in the Bengaluru Urban district course and the English reference guide (Hindi). See the Bengaluru Urban youth opportunity scorecard for the full district picture.