Pillar: Opportunity Infrastructure
Tuensang disburses ₹2,891 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 371.3 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.
68% of registered enterprises are in services while 32% are in manufacturing. Only 50% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12). 50% of ITI trainers are certified.
In Tuensang, which ranks 11 of 17 in Nagaland for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 48.2 out of 100. The district runs ahead of the national picture on young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 56.9%, while it lags on self-employed workers at 65%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 94.1% and women-owned enterprises at 32.1%, it sits close to the national mark.
Mandated services and how to locate the RSETI in Tuensang are in the Tuensang district course and the English reference guide (Hindi). See the Tuensang youth opportunity scorecard for the full district picture.