A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute giving rural youth one to six week courses, with food and lodging covered.
Peren disburses ₹4,060 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 1,329.9 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.
76% of registered enterprises are in services while 24% are in manufacturing. Only 45% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Peren, which ranks 8 of 17 in Nagaland for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 49.9 out of 100. The district runs ahead of the national picture on young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 57.4%, while it lags on self-employed workers at 66.5%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 89% and women-owned enterprises at 26.3%, it sits close to the national mark.