Bangladesh's Small & Cottage Industries Corp plans 3 tannery parks

Under the plan, BSCIC wants to establish a leather industrial park on 200 acres of land for processing raw hide and backward linkage beside the Tannery Industrial Estate in Savar.

The corporation will build a leather and engineering industrial park in Rajshahi, primarily for finished products, and a backward linkage unit that may generate employment opportunities for 50,000.

The central effluent treatment plant (CETP) of the Savar tannery estate does not have the capacity to process all the liquid waste produced there. This untreated effluent and solid wastes lying in the open are now polluting the river as well as the environment.

Taking the issues into consideration, the parliamentary standing committee on the forests and climate change ministry recently recommended shutting down the tannery estate for the sake of saving the environment.

Tanners allege that the failure has created trouble in the industry for the last few years.

BSCIC also plans an industrial park in Chattogram for leather and light engineering industries on 500 acres at Mirsarai, targeting to create around 2.5 lakh jobs.

The corporation will set up a leather and engineering industrial park on 124.21 acres in Puthia near the Dhaka-Natore highway.

According to the initial plan, Bscic will build the park only for making finished leather products. However, it will keep arrangements in case some people want to process rawhide there, according to Bangla media reports.

There are more than 50 warehouses in Natore for collecting and selling raw hide from different districts of North Bengal.

Bscic expects to start the project in fiscal 2022-23 after getting approval from regulatory authorities. However, the cost has not been estimated yet.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (DS)