Alapan Bandyopadhyay, chief advisor to the state chief minister, said this following a review meeting on the complex by chief minister Mamata Banerjee.

He said 187 more tanneries and 139 more footwear manufacturing units are expected to come up in the complex.

The complex, covering 1,150 acres, houses 500 tanneries and leather manufacturing units now, with a working population of 0.5 million.

The government has also decided to promote products of leather manufacturing units located there, according to media reports from the state.

A leather and cottage industry mall would be established in front of the museum set up on the land where the Alipore Correctional home was located. Half of the space in that mall will be allotted to the leather manufacturing units of Karmadiganta, added Bandyopadhyay.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (DS)