Staff Reporter :
The Leather Industrial City of Savar has turned into a wasteland due to failure of Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC).
A long time ago the roads were built, but there is still existence of illegal dumping yard and overflowing tannery waste makes the sitiution difficult to run factories.
The Central Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) is still not ready while tones of waste are going to Dhaleshwari River without purification.
Tannery owners are afraid of such a dilapidated state of waste management before the Eid-ul-Adha.
Although the project Director Engineer Jitendra Nath Pal said three dumping yards are being built permanently to solve the crisis. “One of them will be ready before Eid-ul-Adha,” he said.
Leather technologist Rafiqul Islam said, “A Civil Engineer who passes from BUET, will not understand which I will understand at once.”
“The Leather Industrial City of Savar has reached the stage of extinguishing by lighting the lamp of great potential,” he said.
The illegal dumping yard has grown from a only 50 square feet hole to huge size.
“It did not exist in the original design of the Leather Industrial City,” said Rafiqul Islam.
The work in the tanneries has started fifteen days ago after being closed for a long time due to the Corona pandemic.
The Central Waste Treatment Plant (CWTP) is still that of tail dung situation. The project director himself is concerned about this.
All the CETP modules are running, but the waste is not being completely cleaned, so the pollution of Dhaleshwari River goes unabated.
BSCIC claimed that the tanneries are responsible for the CETP not being fully effective, although the owners have denied it.
Project Director Engineer Jitendra Nath Pal said, “The work of 1 minute is not done for negligence.”
Shahin Ahmed, Chairman of the Bangladesh Tanners Association, said, “There was no settlement plan in the design given by BSCIC.”
Meanwhile, the government has given attention to the waste management of the industrial city before the Eid-ul-Adha.
Three dumping yards are being built on solid structures. BSCIC assures that it will be ended before Eid. However, the tannery owners have no confidence in it.
