A Common Facility Centre giving traditional craft clusters shared machinery, training, design help, and market access.
Gangtok has 1,715 manufacturing MSMEs. 71.4% of self-employment loans go to the district's top industry. The Common Facility Centre under SFURTI gives artisan clusters shared equipment they could not afford individually.
82% of registered enterprises are in services while 18% are in manufacturing. Only 7% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 63% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Gangtok, which ranks 2 of 6 in Sikkim for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 57.8 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on employment in small and medium enterprises at 7.4% and value added per enterprise worker at ₹1,93,168.