A community institute offering free 2 to 6 month courses in tailoring, beauty, food processing and electrical work.
Thiruvananthapuram trains 99.8 youth per lakh under short-term skilling programmes, behind the typical district. 24.8% of young women aged 15 to 21 are out of education, better than the typical district. The Jan Shikshan Sansthan focuses non-formal skilling on dropouts and women who need a route back into livelihoods without returning to a classroom.
77% of registered enterprises are in services while 23% are in manufacturing. Only 5% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 87% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Thiruvananthapuram, which ranks 5 of 15 in Kerala for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 57.2 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on women in the labour force at 59.8%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 88.5%, it sits close to the national mark.