A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute giving rural youth one to six week courses, with food and lodging covered.
Lunglei disburses ₹20,522 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 808.2 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.
77% of registered enterprises are in services while 23% are in manufacturing. Only 2% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. Only 58% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Lunglei, which ranks 9 of 11 in Mizoram for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 52.2 out of 100. It trails the national picture on self-employed workers at 67.2% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 27.3%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 89.8% and women-owned enterprises at 54.7%, it sits close to the national mark.