A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute giving rural youth one to six week courses, with food and lodging covered.
Katni disburses ₹23,974 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 542 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.
82% of registered enterprises are in services while 18% are in manufacturing. Only 8% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. Only 56% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Katni, which ranks 22 of 55 in Madhya Pradesh for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 44 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on self-employed workers at 45.6% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 54.3%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 93.7% and women-owned enterprises at 33.9%, it sits close to the national mark.