Around 620 Kendras nationwide channel rural and non-student youth into clubs, camps, sports, and volunteering.
32% of young men in Kakching read a newspaper regularly, better than the typical district. 73.5% use the internet, better than the typical district. MY Bharat and the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan build on this base to organise youth for civic and community participation.
48% of registered enterprises are in services while 52% are in manufacturing. Small and medium enterprises account for 1.4% of MSME employment. Enrolment in classes 9 to 12 equals 59% of the population of that age.
In Kakching, which ranks 7 of 16 in Manipur for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 49.4 out of 100. The district runs ahead of the national picture on women who read a newspaper regularly at 17.2%, against 11.0% nationally, women using the internet at 43.7%, against 30.9% nationally and higher-education enrolment at 25.7%, against 20.1% nationally, while it lags on young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 34.6%, against 47.1% nationally.