Around 620 Kendras nationwide channel rural and non-student youth into clubs, camps, sports, and volunteering.
21.9% of young men in Pathankot read a newspaper regularly, behind the typical district. 91% 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.
84% of registered enterprises are in services while 16% are in manufacturing. Only 4% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 87% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Pathankot, which ranks 3 of 23 in Punjab for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 55.7 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on women using the internet at 68.6%. On women who read a newspaper regularly at 11%, young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 43.5% and higher-education enrolment at 20.1%, it sits close to the national mark.