A Common Facility Centre giving traditional craft clusters shared machinery, training, design help, and market access.
Nuapada has 3,362 manufacturing MSMEs. 52.4% of self-employment loans go to the district's top industry. The Common Facility Centre under SFURTI gives artisan clusters shared equipment they could not afford individually.
79% of registered enterprises are in services while 21% are in manufacturing. Small and medium enterprises account for 2.1% of MSME employment. Enrolment in classes 9 to 12 equals 84% of the population of that age.
In Nuapada, which ranks 15 of 30 in Odisha for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 44 out of 100. It trails the national picture on employment in small and medium enterprises at 2.1%, against 3.3% nationally and value added per enterprise worker at ₹1,09,080, against ₹1,43,689 nationally.