A community institute offering free 2 to 6 month courses in tailoring, beauty, food processing and electrical work.
Kiphire trains 153.9 youth per lakh under short-term skilling programmes, behind the typical district. 33.4% of young women aged 15 to 21 are out of education, close to the typical district. The Jan Shikshan Sansthan focuses non-formal skilling on dropouts and women who need a route back into livelihoods without returning to a classroom.
69% of registered enterprises are in services while 31% are in manufacturing. Only 41% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Kiphire, which ranks 17 of 17 in Nagaland for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 45.1 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on women in the labour force at 68.3%.