Pillar: Opportunity Infrastructure
Malkangiri disburses ₹20,601 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 257.2 youth per lakh under short-term skilling, close to the typical district. The Rural Self Employment Training Institute prepares rural youth to use credit like this to start their own enterprise.
80% of registered enterprises are in services while 20% are in manufacturing. Only 2% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 72% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12). Only 36% of ITI trainers are certified.
In Malkangiri, which ranks 29 of 30 in Odisha for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 40.4 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 56%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 95.4%, self-employed workers at 59.5% and women-owned enterprises at 21.6%, it sits close to the national mark.
Mandated services and how to locate the RSETI in Malkangiri are in the Malkangiri district course and the English reference guide (Hindi). See the Malkangiri youth opportunity scorecard for the full district picture.