A community institute offering free 2 to 6 month courses in tailoring, beauty, food processing and electrical work.
Chandel trains 338.4 youth per lakh under short-term skilling programmes, better than the typical district. 2.9% of young women aged 15 to 21 are out of education, better than the typical district. The Jan Shikshan Sansthan focuses non-formal skilling on dropouts and women who need a route back into livelihoods without returning to a classroom.
57% of registered enterprises are in services while 43% are in manufacturing. Only 4% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. Only 41% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Chandel, which ranks 11 of 16 in Manipur for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 48.1 out of 100. On skilling trainees who get certified at 91.8% and women in the labour force at 48.8%, it sits close to the national mark.