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The industries secretary urged the tanneries to work together in the peak season for maintaining the international standard of the leather goods.

With the launch of Namami Gange programme, stringent action against these tanneries has been taken so that no effluents flow into the river.

She pointed out that the number of tanneries would be increased in phases.

The STZ project would help in shifting of tanneries located in and around city to centralized location and to provide various facilities like common effluent treatment plant, solid waste disposal site and common effluent collection system, he highlighted.

The panel hoped that proceedings of the workshop would lead to development of recommendations for better leather productivity and arranging such awareness promotion activities are useful to encourage tanneries to participate in the programe, and strengthen their awareness and knowledge of cleaner production technologies and practices.

The unlicensed tanneries and informal housing have taken their toll on the aqueduct, causing damage to it by their pollution, a primitive sanitation system and rising ground water.

The businessmen have not yet transported the hides to tanneries in Kasur in the hope that the prices may rise to some extent and have dumped them in their warehouses after salting.

There is a plan to set up 5,000 cottage industries, invest in four leather parks and expand existing tanneries.

Fifty new tanneries will be launched in Rubiki in March, bringing the total number of operational tanneries in the leather city to 75.

SIALKOT:The development work on mega projects of Sialkot Tanneries Zone was briskly underway with the help of different departments, said Deputy Commissioner Dr.

While giving the briefing about the Sialkot Tannery Zone Project to the delelgation, DC, Dr Farrukh Naveed, said that the construction of Sialkot Tannry Zone was underway on 396 acres of land near Khambraanwala-Sialkot, where all the 250 small and big sized tanneries scattered in and around the city would soon be shifted to the zone.

"But in more than three months, we have not received any fresh supply of leather and I cannot afford to feed workers who are sitting idle." Like about 400 other tanneries in Kanpur, the largest city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Babu Bhai's business is a victim of the Hindu nationalism stemming from the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and from his acolyte Yogi Adityanath, the firebrand anti-Muslim cleric who became chief minister of Uttar Pradesh in March.

A survey was conducted in Pakistan for quality characteristics range of effluent from tanneries processing as given in Table 1 (Iqbal et al., 1998).

TUNIS, (TAP) - A new wastewater treatment plant for tanneries in the industrial zone of El Agba will be established soon, Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development Nejib Derouiche told TAP on Thursday.

The paper said the number of operating tanneries in the Sudan is estimated at 28 tanneries distributed in Khartoum, White Nile, Red Sea, and kassala States with a designing capacity of 25 million pieces of hides.