A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute giving rural youth one to six week courses, with food and lodging covered.
Birbhum disburses ₹39,795 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 106.7 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.
74% of registered enterprises are in services while 26% are in manufacturing. Only 4% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 81% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Birbhum, which ranks 22 of 23 in West Bengal for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 40 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on self-employed workers at 43%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 96.6%, women-owned enterprises at 41.7% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 50.7%, it sits close to the national mark.