A Common Facility Centre giving traditional craft clusters shared machinery, training, design help, and market access.
Thane has 1,46,282 manufacturing MSMEs. 62% of self-employment loans go to the district's top industry. The Common Facility Centre under SFURTI gives artisan clusters shared equipment they could not afford individually.
80% of registered enterprises are in services while 20% are in manufacturing. Small and medium enterprises account for 6.9% of MSME employment. Enrolment in classes 9 to 12 equals 89% of the population of that age.
In Thane, which ranks 3 of 36 in Maharashtra for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 59.3 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on employment in small and medium enterprises at 6.9%, against 3.3% nationally and value added per enterprise worker at ₹2,13,825, against ₹1,43,689 nationally.