Around 620 Kendras nationwide channel rural and non-student youth into clubs, camps, sports, and volunteering.
8.4% of young men in Fatehgarh Sahib read a newspaper regularly, behind the typical district. 81.3% use the internet, better than the typical district. MY Bharat and the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan build on this base to organise youth for civic and community participation.
77% of registered enterprises are in services while 23% are in manufacturing. Only 25% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 81% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Fatehgarh Sahib, which ranks 4 of 23 in Punjab for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 55.2 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on women who read a newspaper regularly at 13%, women using the internet at 59.5% and higher-education enrolment at 42.4%. On young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 43.6%, it sits close to the national mark.