A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute giving rural youth one to six week courses, with food and lodging covered.
Pondicherry disburses ₹64,095 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 319.7 youth per lakh under short-term skilling, better than the typical district. The Rural Self Employment Training Institute prepares rural youth to use credit like this to start their own enterprise.
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 self-employed workers at 22.6%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 95.9%, women-owned enterprises at 26.7% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 43.6%, it sits close to the national mark.