A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute giving rural youth one to six week courses, with food and lodging covered.
Chamoli disburses ₹28,645 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 331 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.
82% of registered enterprises are in services while 18% are in manufacturing. Only 1% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 82% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Chamoli, which ranks 8 of 13 in Uttarakhand for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 49.7 out of 100. It trails the national picture on self-employed workers at 79.6%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 94.4%, women-owned enterprises at 16.2% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 49.5%, it sits close to the national mark.