A centre that helps founders turn ideas into running enterprises through space, mentoring, and seed-fund links.
Malkangiri has 12,321 service-sector MSMEs. The district's service-sector gross value added per worker is ₹94,361, behind the typical district. The Incubation and Startup Centre is where the next wave of this service enterprise base gets built.
80% of registered enterprises are in services while 20% are in manufacturing. Only 2% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 88% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Malkangiri, which ranks 26 of 30 in Odisha for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 41.4 out of 100. On credit going to productive use at 59.8% and bank branches per lakh people at 9.9, it sits close to the national mark.