A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute giving rural youth one to six week courses, with food and lodging covered.
Pherzawl disburses ₹3,569 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 622.7 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.
21% of registered enterprises are in services while 79% are in manufacturing. Only 12% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Pherzawl, which ranks 15 of 16 in Manipur for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 44.9 out of 100. It trails the national picture on self-employed workers at 68.5% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 34.6%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 87.9% and women-owned enterprises at 35.1%, it sits close to the national mark.