Around 620 Kendras nationwide channel rural and non-student youth into clubs, camps, sports, and volunteering.
17% of young men in Mangan read a newspaper regularly, behind the typical district. 59.1% use the internet, close to the typical district. MY Bharat and the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan build on this base to organise youth for civic and community participation.
70% of registered enterprises are in services while 30% are in manufacturing. Only 2% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. Only 45% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Mangan, which ranks 6 of 6 in Sikkim for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 50.7 out of 100. The district runs ahead of the national picture on women who read a newspaper regularly at 15.4%, women using the internet at 46.8% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 61.6%, while it lags on higher-education enrolment at 5.9%.