Pillar: Opportunity Infrastructure
Chitrakoot disburses ₹13,378 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 616.4 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.
75% of registered enterprises are in services while 25% are in manufacturing. Only 4% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. Only 51% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12). 80% of ITI trainers are certified.
In Chitrakoot, which ranks 38 of 75 in Uttar Pradesh for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 44.2 out of 100. It trails the national picture on self-employed workers at 72.6%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 97.4%, women-owned enterprises at 15.5% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 44.4%, it sits close to the national mark.
Mandated services and how to locate the RSETI in Chitrakoot are in the Chitrakoot district course and the English reference guide (Hindi). See the Chitrakoot youth opportunity scorecard for the full district picture.