A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute giving rural youth one to six week courses, with food and lodging covered.
Tumakuru disburses ₹50,713 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 239.1 youth per lakh under short-term skilling, behind the typical district. The Rural Self Employment Training Institute prepares rural youth to use credit like this to start their own enterprise.
74% of registered enterprises are in services while 26% are in manufacturing. Only 5% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 69% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Tumakuru, which ranks 9 of 31 in Karnataka for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 51.2 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on self-employed workers at 49.3%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 95.9%, women-owned enterprises at 46.2% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 47.2%, it sits close to the national mark.