A Rural Self-Employment Training Institute giving rural youth one to six week courses, with food and lodging covered.
Jalpaiguri disburses ₹49,882 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. 64% of school-age children are enrolled in higher secondary school (classes 9–12).
In Jalpaiguri, which ranks 7 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.