A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute giving rural youth one to six week courses, with food and lodging covered.
Udham Singh Nagar disburses ₹47,584 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 784 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 8% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 83% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Udham Singh Nagar, which ranks 2 of 13 in Uttarakhand for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 53.6 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on self-employed workers at 48.1%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 97%, women-owned enterprises at 13.3% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 46.2%, it sits close to the national mark.