Pillar: Opportunity Infrastructure
Tenkasi disburses ₹5,382 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 81.9 youth per lakh under short-term skilling, behind the typical district. The Rural Self Employment Training Institute prepares rural youth to use credit like this to start their own enterprise.
72% of registered enterprises are in services while 28% are in manufacturing. Only 2% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 71% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12). Only 29% of ITI trainers are certified.
In Tenkasi, which ranks 37 of 38 in Tamil Nadu for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 44.4 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on self-employed workers at 45.3%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 90.5%, women-owned enterprises at 52.2% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 44.5%, it sits close to the national mark.
Mandated services and how to locate the RSETI in Tenkasi are in the Tenkasi district course and the English reference guide (Hindi). See the Tenkasi youth opportunity scorecard for the full district picture.