 It is the major industrial area in Hooghly district, having factories like Jayashree Textiles, Aditya Birla Insulators (A Unit of Aditya Birla Nuvo Limited), Hindustan National Glass, Berger Paints, PMC Rubber Chemicals, Hastings Jute Mill, The Phosphate Co.LTD., Laxmi Narayan Cotton Mills, Bindawala Cables, R.S.Ispat, The Orion Corp India, Wellington Jute Mill, Fort William Industries, Pathak Printing Press (A Unit of Note Book Manufacturing, Design & Print).Rishra, as most of the Hooghly district, has shown signs of the gradual declining of jute industries in Bengal after the partition of India in 1947.