Lucknow, April 1 -- As many as 4,746 new factories were registered in Uttar Pradesh in the financial year 2025-26, which ended on Tuesday, reflecting continued industrial momentum in the state.

State industrial development minister Nand Gopal Gupta said that since the BJP came to power in March 2017, a total of 17,841 factories have been registered.

He noted that this figure surpasses the 14,178 factories registered in the nearly 70 years between Independence in 1947 and March 2017.

"With the latest additions, the total number of registered factories in the state has reached 32,019," the minister said.

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