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The Cost of Empty Factories

Kashmir Observer

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DECEMBER 12, 2025 ISSUE

Stronger infrastructure and simpler rules can turn things around.

- Irshad Mushtaq

An industrial estate outside Srinagar shows the state of Jammu and Kashmir's economy more clearly than any report. Long lines of locked factory units stand where steady production was once promised.

The latest RBI data confirms this reality: the region has only about a thousand factories, placing it near the bottom among Indian states. The gap with major industrial regions is wide because J&K never built the foundations needed for real growth.

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