A Common Facility Centre giving traditional craft clusters shared machinery, training, design help, and market access.
Chennai has 82,286 manufacturing MSMEs. 66.4% 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 12% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 100% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Chennai, which ranks 2 of 38 in Tamil Nadu for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 62.9 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on employment in small and medium enterprises at 12.5% and value added per enterprise worker at ₹1,95,317.