Unfinished tannery relocation in Bengal is typical of many MoEF projects, says CAG in its first-ever environment audit
A major environmental project initiated in south-east Kolkata relocating more than 500 tanneries in an integrated leather complex spread over 1,100 acres has failed to take off even after 12 years of its initiation, though more than Rs 135 crore has been spent already.
The Bantala tanneries are posing a risk to the environment because of the failure of the state and the Centre to complete the construction of the common effluent treatment plant in the 12 years since work on the leather hub started, the CAG has said in a report.
Untreated effluents discharged into water channels
Units in BP Agraharam,and Kaniravurtharkulam found guilty
Revenue officials conducting raid in a tannery unit at Mamarathupalayam in Erode on Wednesday.
ERODE: A team of officials from the revenue department and Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) conducted surprise checks at the tannery units in few parts of the district on Wednes
Effluent resulting due to various processes from tanning industries may lead to groundwater pollution when they are disposed off without proper treatment.
The efficacy of Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) based on activated sludge process employed for treatment of tannery effluent was analyzed for the efficiency to reduce chromium and other contaminants. Physico-chemical parameters of treated effluent were found within permissible levels of statutory limits.
T E Narasimhan / Chennai September 21, 2010, 0:23 IST
A sizeable number of small and medium units in the leather industry in Tamil Nadu have closed shop.
Regulatory issues such as environmental standards and a lack of tax incentives has hit the tanning industry in the major districts of Dindigual and Tiruchy and other tanning hubs in Tamil Nadu.
Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan on Saturday said that the government has decided to remove tanneries immediately from the city as part of the initiatives to save the river pollutioin from Burigang
Even as the minorities and Dalit fora took out a torchlight protest to condemn the State Government's move to effect Anti-Cow Slaughter Act, the Institute of Leather Industries Lidkar Suppliers has also criticised the move saying it would render people in leather business, jobless.
Dependent
In a press meet on Wednesday, Vijaykumar, secretary of the Institute said that lakhs of families are
