SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir saw its largest annual addition of micro, small and medium enterprises on the Udyam portal in 2023–24, when 291,616 registrations were recorded, the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises told the Lok Sabha on December 11, 2025. The Union territory added a further 71,441 registrations up to November 30, 2025.
Year-wise Udyam registrations for Jammu and Kashmir, as reported to the Centre, are: 2020–21 — 26,237; 2021–22 — 73,934; 2022–23 — 103,201; 2023–24 — 291,616; 2024–25 — 219,145; and 2025–26 (up to 30.11.2025) — 71,441. The figures were supplied in an annexure to a parliamentary reply by the Ministry.
The Udyam registration portal, launched on 01.07.2020, has recorded 7.22 crore MSME registrations nationally as on 30.11.2025, the ministry told Parliament. Annual national additions reported in the same annexure were: 2020–21 — 2,822,317; 2021–22 — 5,106,805; 2022–23 — 8,523,752; 2023–24 — 24,866,115; 2024–25 — 20,624,431; and 2025–26 (up to 30.11.2025) — 10,288,787.
The ministry’s submission to the Lok Sabha underlines the rapid adoption of formal MSME registration in Jammu and Kashmir since mid-2020 and places the Union territory’s recent registration surge in the national context of accelerated Udyam signups.
