Pillar: Opportunity Infrastructure
Uttar Dinajpur disburses ₹32,851 in small business loans per lakh population. The district trains 77.5 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). Only 9% of ITI trainers are certified.
In Uttar Dinajpur, which ranks 21 of 23 in West Bengal for youth opportunity, the overall opportunity score is 40.7 out of 100. It runs ahead of the national picture on young people in the labour force aged 15 to 29 at 54.3%. On skilling trainees who get certified at 95.8%, self-employed workers at 63% and women-owned enterprises at 15.1%, it sits close to the national mark.
Mandated services and how to locate the RSETI in Uttar Dinajpur are in the Uttar Dinajpur district course and the English reference guide (Hindi). See the Uttar Dinajpur youth opportunity scorecard for the full district picture.