Pillar: Opportunity Infrastructure
Sambalpur disburses ₹49,894 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 99.6 youth per lakh under short-term skilling, behind 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 6% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 63% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12). Only 13% of ITI trainers are certified.
In Sambalpur, which ranks 5 of 30 in Odisha for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 47.7 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 60%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 94.8%, self-employed workers at 57.6% and women-owned enterprises at 34.5%, it sits close to the national mark.
Mandated services and how to locate the RSETI in Sambalpur are in the Sambalpur district course and the English reference guide (Hindi). See the Sambalpur youth opportunity scorecard for the full district picture.