A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute giving rural youth one to six week courses, with food and lodging covered.
Haridwar disburses ₹39,771 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 736.9 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 7% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 81% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Haridwar, which ranks 9 of 13 in Uttarakhand for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 49.1 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on self-employed workers at 43.6%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 96.1%, women-owned enterprises at 14.3% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 47.5%, it sits close to the national mark.