Around 620 Kendras nationwide channel rural and non-student youth into clubs, camps, sports, and volunteering.
11.5% of young men in Jalandhar read a newspaper regularly, behind the typical district. 83.2% 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.
76% of registered enterprises are in services while 24% are in manufacturing. Only 6% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 87% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Jalandhar, which ranks 5 of 23 in Punjab for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 54.5 out of 100. The district runs ahead of the national picture on women who read a newspaper regularly at 13.9%, women using the internet at 71.9% and higher-education enrolment at 24.7%, while it lags on young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 38.6%.