Pillar: Opportunity Infrastructure
Ghazipur disburses ₹19,270 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 404.6 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.
78% of registered enterprises are in services while 22% are in manufacturing. Only 2% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. Only 56% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Ghazipur, which ranks 31 of 75 in Uttar Pradesh for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 44.7 out of 100. It trails the national picture on self-employed workers at 75.5%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 95.7%, women-owned enterprises at 28.1% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 46.6%, it sits close to the national mark.
Mandated services and how to locate the RSETI in Ghazipur are in the Ghazipur district course and the English reference guide (Hindi). See the Ghazipur youth opportunity scorecard for the full district picture.