Around 620 Kendras nationwide channel rural and non-student youth into clubs, camps, sports, and volunteering.
24.4% of young men in Pauri Garhwal read a newspaper regularly, behind the typical district. 68.9% use the internet, better than the typical district. MY Bharat and the Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan build on this base to organise youth for civic and community participation.
81% of registered enterprises are in services while 19% are in manufacturing. Only 3% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 71% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Pauri Garhwal, which ranks 3 of 13 in Uttarakhand for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 52.5 out of 100. The district runs ahead of the national picture on women who read a newspaper regularly at 12.6%, women using the internet at 52.9% and higher-education enrolment at 53.3%, while it lags on young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 36.7%.