Jalandhar: The leather complex in Jalandhar will get the second module of the common effluent treatment plant (CETP) in November this year.

CHENNAI: Chennai is to have an integrated leather park and a footwear design and development institute, according to Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister of State for Commerce and Power.

Shruti Srivastava / Lucknow September 15, 2008, 5:48 IST

The Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) is keen on developing a leather cluster in Kanpur. The bank also wants to develop a testing lab for leather products in association with Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K).

The bank is also working on a plan to develop a common effluent plant in the city under the public private partnership model. SIDBI is already at an advanced stage of talks with the Kanpur Leather Association and a private company to partner for the project.

Missile man and former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, in the role of an environmentalist, has called upon Delhites to be involved in cleaning of the city's lifeline, Yamuna river. The ex-president is a man of his own stature and thinks very deeply. These days Dr Kalam is busy in social works. As regards the river Yamuna, it has been polluted from whereever it is flowing, near Kanpur, Allahabad and Agra by industrial units established there as also the people living there. Near Kanpur Dehat, the dirty water from leather factories is drained in the river.

Animals used by the leather industry in India are transported to states where they can legally be killed. Forced to walk through the heat and dust for days without food or water, many of the animals collapse. Handlers pull the cattle by ropes through their noses and twist their necks, horns and tails or rub chilli peppers in their eyes in order to keep them moving.

The management of a milk processing plant has been called by the government to explain why it has not been following environmentally-friendly practices and to submit some relevant reports here on Mond