A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute giving rural youth one to six week courses, with food and lodging covered.
Panna disburses ₹10,241 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 369.9 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. Only 1% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. Only 55% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Panna, which ranks 41 of 55 in Madhya Pradesh for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 41.8 out of 100. The district runs ahead of the national picture on young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 60.6%, while it lags on self-employed workers at 66.4%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 98.1% and women-owned enterprises at 15.6%, it sits close to the national mark.