A Common Facility Centre giving traditional craft clusters shared machinery, training, design help, and market access.
Guna has 9,739 manufacturing MSMEs. 46.3% of self-employment loans go to the district's top industry. The Common Facility Centre under SFURTI gives artisan clusters shared equipment they could not afford individually.
80% of registered enterprises are in services while 20% are in manufacturing. Only 3% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. Only 52% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Guna, which ranks 27 of 55 in Madhya Pradesh for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 43.3 out of 100. It trails the national picture on value added per enterprise worker at ₹1,27,018. On employment in small and medium enterprises at 3%, it sits close to the national mark.