A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute giving rural youth one to six week courses, with food and lodging covered.
Nagpur disburses ₹44,276 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 362.2 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.
78% of registered enterprises are in services while 22% are in manufacturing. Only 7% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 86% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Nagpur, which ranks 6 of 36 in Maharashtra for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 51.9 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on self-employed workers at 38.2%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 93.9%, women-owned enterprises at 35.3% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 42.8%, it sits close to the national mark.