A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute giving rural youth one to six week courses, with food and lodging covered.
Shahdol disburses ₹23,558 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 303.5 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.
83% of registered enterprises are in services while 17% are in manufacturing. Only 3% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. Only 59% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Shahdol, which ranks 30 of 55 in Madhya Pradesh for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 43.1 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on self-employed workers at 52.9%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 94.3%, women-owned enterprises at 17.1% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 47.1%, it sits close to the national mark.