Industrialists from Punjab are looking to set up nearly 150 new units in Uttar Pradesh after the neighbouring state wooed them with incentives at a meeting last month. Traders from the industrial hub of Ludhiana met Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath following an invitation from him to set up manufacturing units in the state.

       The Uttar Pradesh government has offered land at cheaper rates, uninterrupted and subsidised power supply, and promised a peaceful environment if they want to set up industrial units. Among those who met the CM was Gurmeet Singh Kular, an industrialist and a ...