An MSME Development and Facilitation Office under the Ministry of MSME, covering many districts from a state capital.
Kottayam has 14,060 manufacturing MSMEs. The district's manufacturing gross value added per worker is ₹2,95,091, better than the typical district. The MSME Development and Facilitation Office supports this manufacturing base directly.
77% of registered enterprises are in services while 23% are in manufacturing. Small and medium enterprises account for 7.7% of MSME employment. Enrolment in classes 9 to 12 equals 88% of the population of that age.
In Kottayam, which ranks 2 of 14 in Kerala for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 58.1 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on employment in small and medium enterprises at 7.7%, against 3.3% nationally. The district has 46,318 registered service enterprises.