A centre that helps founders turn ideas into running enterprises through space, mentoring, and seed-fund links.
Cooch Behar has 46,540 service-sector MSMEs. The district's service-sector gross value added per worker is ₹1,53,705, close to the typical district. The Incubation and Startup Centre is where the next wave of this service enterprise base gets built.
75% of registered enterprises are in services while 25% are in manufacturing. Only 2% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. 78% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Cooch Behar, which ranks 13 of 23 in West Bengal for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 44.3 out of 100. On credit going to productive use at 68.2% and bank branches per lakh people at 10, it sits close to the national mark.