UP govt to restore industrial glory of Kanpur by reviving textile mills

Defunct textile mills of 'Manchester of the East' to be revived

Kanpur, the erstwhile ‘Manchester of the East’, the nickname it had earned during the British Raj owing to flourishing textile mills in the city, is today a pale shadow of its glorious past.

The closure of textile mills over the past decades coupled with the utter failure of the city to keep pace with haphazard and explosive urbanisation is the stark reality staring in its face even as other towns in Uttar Pradesh emerged on the landscape and developed as the most preferred industrial and economic zones.

However, the Yogi Adityanath government is now looking at reviving the old glory