A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute giving rural youth one to six week courses, with food and lodging covered.
Bareilly disburses ₹19,379 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 418.8 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.
72% of registered enterprises are in services while 28% are in manufacturing. Only 5% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. Only 50% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Bareilly, which ranks 15 of 75 in Uttar Pradesh for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 46.1 out of 100. It trails the national picture on self-employed workers at 65.5%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 95.7%, women-owned enterprises at 35.3% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 49.1%, it sits close to the national mark.