A Common Facility Centre giving traditional craft clusters shared machinery, training, design help, and market access.
Pondicherry has 9,253 manufacturing MSMEs. 48.1% 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.
82% of registered enterprises are in services while 18% are in manufacturing. Only 7% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 67% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Pondicherry, which ranks 1 of 2 in Puducherry for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 60 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on employment in small and medium enterprises at 6.5% and value added per enterprise worker at ₹3,95,086.