A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute giving rural youth one to six week courses, with food and lodging covered.
Ernakulam disburses ₹50,050 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 173.5 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.
75% of registered enterprises are in services while 25% are in manufacturing. Only 12% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 98% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Ernakulam, which ranks 1 of 15 in Kerala for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 66.7 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on self-employed workers at 23.2%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 95.1%, women-owned enterprises at 28.7% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 49.7%, it sits close to the national mark.