A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute giving rural youth one to six week courses, with food and lodging covered.
Yanam disburses ₹2,96,775 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 1,111.9 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.
72% of registered enterprises are in services while 28% are in manufacturing. Only 19% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. Only 34% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Yanam, which ranks 2 of 27 in Puducherry for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 54.7 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on self-employed workers at 44.8%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 99.2%, women-owned enterprises at 33.5% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 46.4%, it sits close to the national mark.