economic fabric
What is Ghaziabad made of?
news coverage + 3×registered companies + 2×mapped places, log-scaled vs strongest sector
momentum
What the city turned toward · Jan–Apr 2026
Each topic's share of news attention, January–April 2026 against September–December 2025 — news ingestion paused in May, so this is the latest complete window.
Public Safety
22 → 156 news reports
▲482%
Healthcare
40 → 87 news reports
▲79%
Protest
25 → 13 news reports
▼57%
Environment
56 → 30 news reports
▼56%
Legal Judicial
37 → 20 news reports
▼56%
Corruption
122 → 72 news reports
▼52%
Elections Politics
17 → 12 news reports
▼42%
Infrastructure & housing
29 → 21 news reports
▼41%
Governance
127 → 102 news reports
▼34%
Accidents
154 → 211 news reports
▲13%
a rising share means the city's attention is turning toward it — not necessarily more incidents
top city themes
What Ghaziabad's news is about
Themes across the city's entire news coverage — ≈70.4K located reports — with each theme's momentum, its most specific keywords, and how the coverage feels. A CRITICAL badge means most of that theme's coverage is extremely negative.
Crime
▲65.4% growing
Child Maltreatment · Acquaintance Rape · Child Abuse · Murder Investigations
100% negative coverage
Law Enforcement
▲43.3% growing
Cyberstalking Enforcement · Child Maltreatment · Multiple Victim Shooting · Gang Intervention
99% negative coverage
Government
▼35.0% declining
Intercity Bus Routes · Exclusive Use Buses · Metro Station Infrastructure · Metro Networks
56% positive coverage
Politics
▼0.0% declining
Party Nomination Rules · Intercity Bus Routes · Bus Service Changes · Bus Timetable Updates
76% negative coverage
Transportation
▼12.5% declining
Bus Crash · Truck Accident · Aviation Accident · Transport Crash
56% negative coverage
Health
▼8.3% declining
Pollution Monitoring · Air Quality Standards · Pollution Index · Hazardous Air Quality
82% negative coverage
Education
▲7.1% growing
Student Assault · College Entrance Exams · School Homicide · Admissions Testing
59% positive coverage
Infrastructure
▲27.3% growing
Metro Station Infrastructure · Metro Networks · High-speed Rail Facilities · Integrated Transit Centers
78% positive coverage
Accident
▲35.7% growing
Truck Accident · Bus Crash · Aviation Accident · Transport Crash
100% negative coverage
momentum window: Jan–Apr 2026 vs Sep–Dec 2025 · sentiment is a property of the news coverage, not a city rating
city signals
The character of Ghaziabad
- ✓Industrial backbone— 421 registered firms and 1624 mapped places are manufacturing-adjacent.
- ✓Retail heavyweight— Retail scores 10/10 and has 2465 mapped places.
- ✓Transport investment magnet— Transport leads government announcements, including second-phase Delhi Metro talks.
- ✓Broad employer bench— Goodluck India, Sheela Group and Impact Infotech lead staff counts.
- ✓Commercial-tech talent— Sales, communication, Python and Java feature prominently in hiring.
- ✓Restless startup scene— 980 companies formed since 2018, but 17.8% have shut.
- ✓Thin venture capital— Only 66 tracked companies have ever raised outside money.
- ✓Practical research cluster— Local institutions emphasize machine learning, AI and connected-device research.
everyday life
Living in Ghaziabad means…
- ✓staying close to Delhi— New Delhi is 33 kilometers away, with Delhi Metro connectivity.
- ✓sharing streets with industry— Manufacturers are the largest mapped business kind, with 1372 places.
- ✓watching the air closely— Air quality dominates research about the city itself.
- ✓taking road safety seriously— Traffic accidents gained a bigger slice of local news.
- ✓having abundant retail choice— Retail includes 2465 mapped places across the city.
- ✓living through redevelopment— Tulsi Niketan redevelopment and major housing allocations signal continuing change.
read from the news record — not a survey
hidden depth
Things most people don't know
- A company says it planted over 35,000 native trees at an urban dump yard, with a 92% survival rate.
- A traffic accident tied to May 2016 coverage was associated with 181 deaths.
- Mohan Meakin Limited, with 1750 staff, ranks among the city's biggest employers.
- Institute of Management Technology is linked to 868 papers in the available research.
- Rathi Steel and Power's Ghaziabad unit recorded its highest-ever monthly sales at about ₹77.45 crore.