Around 620 Kendras nationwide channel rural and non-student youth into clubs, camps, sports, and volunteering.
18.8% of young men in Meluri read a newspaper regularly, behind the typical district. 58.1% use the internet, close to the typical district. MY Bharat and the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan build on this base to organise youth for civic and community participation.
55% of registered enterprises are in services while 45% are in manufacturing. Only 31% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Meluri, which ranks 7 of 17 in Nagaland for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 50.4 out of 100. The district runs ahead of the national picture on women using the internet at 46.7% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 57.4%, while it lags on women who read a newspaper regularly at 4.7%.