Pillar: Opportunity Infrastructure
Jalpaiguri disburses ₹48,740 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 118 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.
82% of registered enterprises are in services while 18% are in manufacturing. Only 5% of employment is in small and medium enterprises. Only 51% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12). Only 3% of ITI trainers are certified.
In Jalpaiguri, which ranks 8 of 23 in West Bengal for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 46.9 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on self-employed workers at 52.2%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 94.7%, women-owned enterprises at 17.8% and young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 46.2%, it sits close to the national mark.
Mandated services and how to locate the RSETI in Jalpaiguri are in the Jalpaiguri district course and the English reference guide (Hindi). See the Jalpaiguri youth opportunity scorecard for the full district picture.