Pillar: Opportunity Infrastructure
Erode disburses ₹39,251 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 498 youth per lakh under short-term skilling, better than the typical district. The Rural Self Employment Training Institute prepares rural youth to use credit like this to start their own enterprise.
63% of registered enterprises are in services while 37% are in manufacturing. Only 6% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 71% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12). Only 48% of ITI trainers are certified.
In Erode, which ranks 8 of 38 in Tamil Nadu for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 54.5 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on self-employed workers at 35.7% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 53.3%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 94.1% and women-owned enterprises at 30.3%, it sits close to the national mark.
Mandated services and how to locate the RSETI in Erode are in the Erode district course and the English reference guide (Hindi). See the Erode youth opportunity scorecard for the full district picture.