Pillar: Opportunity Infrastructure
Ernakulam disburses ₹36,366 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. 70% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12). Only 36% of ITI trainers are certified.
In Ernakulam, which ranks 1 of 15 in Kerala for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 66.5 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.
Mandated services and how to locate the RSETI in Ernakulam are in the Ernakulam district course and the English reference guide (Hindi). See the Ernakulam youth opportunity scorecard for the full district picture.