Kanpur’s tanneries shut down last year for Kumbh and were not allowed to reopen because of environmental concerns.
Current Affairs:-Kanpur’s calfskin tanneries that were shut for Kumbh, the world’s biggest religious get-together held for the current year in January in Prayagraj, are easing back coming back to life.
The tanneries were shut from December 15, 2018 to March 15 to guarantee Ganga waterway was spotless downstream in Prayagraj ( in the past Allahabad) and a large portion of them stayed shut later in light of the fact that the UP Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) wouldn’t give them no-protest authentications.
Kanpur’s cowhide center point called Jajmau has an expected 267 tanneries. Upwards of 239 tanneries shut a year ago and 28 kept on working as they were purportedly founded on a dry tanning process.
The Rs 12,000-crore industry, including tanneries and cowhide products makers, gives immediate and circuitous work to around a million people in Kanpur and Unnao locale. It produces Rs 6,000 crore worth of fares to the Gulf, Europe, China, Iran and so on.
A month ago, the state government enabled the tanneries to open on the off chance that they worked at just 50 percent of introduced limit and met ecological standards.
After the suggestion of the Kanpur locale organization following investigations, the UPPCB has so far enabled 101 tanneries to revive in Jajmau. The staying 138 tanneries are probably going to be permitted to revive before long subject to adherence to standards set by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) and UPPCB.
“We welcome the choice to enable tanneries to be revived. In any case, it will take 2 a month for these units to accomplish ideal limit, since a great deal of fix works must be done in plants and apparatus,” Small Tanners’ Association part Nayyar Jamal disclosed to Business Standard.
“It is a breather to the Kanpur calfskin industry that the tanneries are being permitted to revive. Be that as it may, except if all tanneries revive, it would be just a halfway help. In any case, we are cheerful in any event things have begun moving the positive way,” said Javed Iqbal, executive of Council for Leather Exports (CLE), focal locale.
Aditi Mehta 