Yogi Adityanath creates investment history as Uttar Pradesh adds record 2.3 million investors in a year

Lucknow ( Raghwendra Pratap Singh) : In what can be termed an incredible achievement, Uttar Pradesh, under the leadership of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, has added 2.26 million (22.6 lakh) new retail investors, the highest among all Indian states. This has taken the state's total investor base to 15 million (1.5 crore). Experts are of the opinion that the growing number of investors indicates a steadily increasing interest among people in the state toward the stock market and financial investments.

These figures were revealed in a report released by the Economic Policy and Research (EPR) Department of the National Stock Exchange of India. According to the report, Uttar Pradesh has outperformed all other states in terms of adding new investors during the period under review. Although the pace of new investor additions slowed somewhat compared to the previous financial year, the overall investor base continued to expand steadily.

Here are some of the key details:

Uttar Pradesh has added 2.26 million (22.6 lakh) new retail investors.

This has taken the state's total investor base to 15 million (1.5 crore).

These figures were revealed in a report released by the Economic Policy and Research (EPR) Department of the National Stock Exchange of India.

Uttar Pradesh's share of the country's total registered investors has now risen to 11.7 percent.

According to the report, Uttar Pradesh has climbed to the second position nationwide in terms of total number of investors.

Only Maharashtra ranks ahead of Uttar Pradesh, while the state has surpassed several traditionally strong investment destinations, including Gujarat.