A community institute offering free 2 to 6 month courses in tailoring, beauty, food processing and electrical work.
Cooch Behar trains 153.8 youth per lakh under short-term skilling programmes, behind the typical district. 18.8% of young women aged 15 to 21 are out of education, better than the typical district. The Jan Shikshan Sansthan focuses non-formal skilling on dropouts and women who need a route back into livelihoods without returning to a classroom.
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 skilling trainees who get certified at 95.4% and women in the labour force at 52.3%, it sits close to the national mark.