Pillar: Opportunity Infrastructure
East Jaintia Hills disburses ₹4,145 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 324 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.
66% of registered enterprises are in services while 34% are in manufacturing. Only 5% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. Only 37% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In East Jaintia Hills, which ranks 8 of 12 in Meghalaya for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 41 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on self-employed workers at 43.8% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 54.3%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 87.5% and women-owned enterprises at 38.5%, it sits close to the national mark.
Mandated services and how to locate the RSETI in East Jaintia Hills are in the East Jaintia Hills district course and the English reference guide (Hindi). See the East Jaintia Hills youth opportunity scorecard for the full district picture.