Pillar: Opportunity Infrastructure
Kozhikode disburses ₹29,208 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 141.3 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 6% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 69% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12). Only 20% of ITI trainers are certified.
In Kozhikode, which ranks 11 of 15 in Kerala for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 54 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on self-employed workers at 30.4%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 94.5%, women-owned enterprises at 16.3% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 42.2%, it sits close to the national mark.
Mandated services and how to locate the RSETI in Kozhikode are in the Kozhikode district course and the English reference guide (Hindi). See the Kozhikode youth opportunity scorecard for the full district picture.