A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute giving rural youth one to six week courses, with food and lodging covered.
Damoh disburses ₹16,041 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 499.4 youth per lakh under short-term skilling, better than the typical district. The Rural Self Employment Training Institute prepares rural youth to use credit like this to start their own enterprise.
81% of registered enterprises are in services while 19% are in manufacturing. Small and medium enterprises account for 3.1% of MSME employment. Enrolment in classes 9 to 12 equals 63% of the population of that age.
In Damoh, which ranks 36 of 55 in Madhya Pradesh for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 42.8 out of 100. The district runs ahead of the national picture on young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 59%, against 47% nationally, while it lags on self-employed workers at 66%, against 59% nationally. On skilling trainees who get certified at 97.9% and women-owned enterprises at 40%, it sits close to the national mark.