Pillar: Opportunity Infrastructure
Amritsar disburses ₹29,748 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 659.7 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.
75% of registered enterprises are in services while 25% are in manufacturing. Only 5% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 60% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12). Only 13% of ITI trainers are certified.
In Amritsar, which ranks 13 of 23 in Punjab for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 51.4 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on self-employed workers at 38.2%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 94.3%, women-owned enterprises at 28.8% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 47.7%, it sits close to the national mark.
Mandated services and how to locate the RSETI in Amritsar are in the Amritsar district course and the English reference guide (Hindi). See the Amritsar youth opportunity scorecard for the full district picture.