Pillar: Opportunity Infrastructure
Nandurbar disburses ₹10,957 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 96 youth per lakh under short-term skilling, behind the typical district. The Rural Self Employment Training Institute prepares rural youth to use credit like this to start their own enterprise.
76% of registered enterprises are in services while 24% are in manufacturing. Only 4% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. Only 59% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12). Only 12% of ITI trainers are certified.
In Nandurbar, which ranks 36 of 36 in Maharashtra for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 39.8 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on self-employed workers at 49.8%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 97.9%, women-owned enterprises at 32.5% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 48.9%, it sits close to the national mark.
Mandated services and how to locate the RSETI in Nandurbar are in the Nandurbar district course and the English reference guide (Hindi). See the Nandurbar youth opportunity scorecard for the full district picture.