A Common Facility Centre giving traditional craft clusters shared machinery, training, design help, and market access.
Ghaziabad has 58,892 manufacturing MSMEs. 47.5% of self-employment loans go to the district's top industry. The Common Facility Centre under SFURTI gives artisan clusters shared equipment they could not afford individually.
74% of registered enterprises are in services while 26% are in manufacturing. Only 9% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 71% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Ghaziabad, which ranks 2 of 75 in Uttar Pradesh for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 57.4 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on employment in small and medium enterprises at 9.1% and value added per enterprise worker at ₹1,65,522.