Pillar: Opportunity Infrastructure
Muzaffarnagar disburses ₹23,486 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 327.5 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 5% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. Only 40% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Muzaffarnagar, which ranks 49 of 75 in Uttar Pradesh for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 43 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on self-employed workers at 52.2%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 95.9%, women-owned enterprises at 17.1% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 43.6%, it sits close to the national mark.
Mandated services and how to locate the RSETI in Muzaffarnagar are in the Muzaffarnagar district course and the English reference guide (Hindi). See the Muzaffarnagar youth opportunity scorecard for the full district picture.