A planned zone of factories and workshops, developed by the state industrial corporation on subsidised land.
3.5% of Vidisha's workforce works in small and medium enterprises, close to the typical district. The district has 9,916 manufacturing MSMEs. The Industrial Estate provides the plotted land and shared infrastructure this manufacturing base runs on.
80% of registered enterprises are in services while 20% are in manufacturing. Small and medium enterprises account for 3.5% of MSME employment. Enrolment in classes 9 to 12 equals 55% of the population of that age.
In Vidisha, which ranks 32 of 55 in Madhya Pradesh for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 42.9 out of 100. It trails the national picture on value added per enterprise worker at ₹95,708, against ₹1,43,689 nationally and formal-sector jobs at 7.2%, against 9.0% nationally.