A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute giving rural youth one to six week courses, with food and lodging covered.
Karur disburses ₹25,665 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 413 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.
67% of registered enterprises are in services while 33% are in manufacturing. Only 5% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 81% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Karur, which ranks 22 of 38 in Tamil Nadu for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 50.1 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on self-employed workers at 36.9%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 97.8%, women-owned enterprises at 33.9% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 44.1%, it sits close to the national mark.