A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute giving rural youth one to six week courses, with food and lodging covered.
Alipurduar disburses ₹50,365 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 8.3 youth per lakh under short-term skilling, behind the typical district. The Rural Self Employment Training Institute prepares rural youth to use credit like this to start their own enterprise.
81% of registered enterprises are in services while 19% are in manufacturing. Only 3% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 81% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Alipurduar, which ranks 8 of 23 in West Bengal for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 46.5 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on self-employed workers at 52.2%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 100%, women-owned enterprises at 13.2% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 46.2%, it sits close to the national mark.