A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute giving rural youth one to six week courses, with food and lodging covered.
Dehradun disburses ₹48,257 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 531.2 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.
84% of registered enterprises are in services while 16% are in manufacturing. Only 5% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 100% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Dehradun, which ranks 5 of 13 in Uttarakhand for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 52 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on self-employed workers at 46%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 94.9%, women-owned enterprises at 13% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 46.6%, it sits close to the national mark.