A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute giving rural youth one to six week courses, with food and lodging covered.
Saiha disburses ₹15,344 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 625.4 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.
78% of registered enterprises are in services while 22% are in manufacturing. Small and medium enterprises account for 2.9% of MSME employment. Enrolment in classes 9 to 12 equals 54% of the population of that age.
In Saiha, which ranks 11 of 11 in Mizoram for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 51.4 out of 100. It trails the national picture on self-employed workers at 67.2%, against 59.3% nationally and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 27.3%, against 47.1% nationally. On skilling trainees who get certified at 98.2% and women-owned enterprises at 49.6%, it sits close to the national mark.