Abdul Alim :
A large amount of waste are being discharged from many substandard Central Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs) of Savar Tannery Industrial Estate into the Dhaleshwari River.
The flow of filthy water into the river has been intensified due to filtering in the faulty CETPs from such factories, tanneries traders and owners alleged.
Thursday mediated by the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI).
Representatives of Bangladesh Tanners Association (BTA), Bangladesh Finished Leather, Leather Goods and Footwear Exporters Association (BFLLFEA), Bangladesh Hide and Skin Merchants’ Association (BHSMA) and the Industries and Commerce Ministries were present at the meeting held at FBCCI office in Dhaka.
“Tannery industry owners have agreed to clear the arrears to rawhide merchants in three installments. We have called another meeting on August 31. We would discuss the issue there,” FBCCI president Sheikh Fazle Fahim said this after the meeting
Leaders of Bangladesh Hide and Skin Merchant Association said they would not sell any rawhide to tanners until they get the previous arrear of over Tk 300 crore.
“Repayment the dues is a continuous process. The merchants and tanners will sit tomorrow to discuss the issue, and both sides will meet again on August 31 in presence of the chamber leaders,” Sheikh Fazle Fahim said.
The prices of rawhides fell sharply during Eid-ul-Azha, and the hide merchants blamed it for fund crisis due to arrears to tanners and market manipulation by an active ‘syndicate’.
Before Eid-ul-Azha, the government had fixed the prices of rawhides of cows and buffaloes at Tk 45-50 per square foot in the capital and Tk 35-40 elsewhere. The price of the rawhide of castrated goats was fixed at Tk 18-20 per square foot, while it was Tk 13-15 for that of non-castrated goats.
But, cowhide was sold on an average between Tk 150 and Tk 250 a piece, while the average price of goatskin varied between Tk 10 and Tk 30 a piece, leading to an unprecedented chaos in the procurement of rawhides of the sacrificial animals this year.
Some 10 million animals were sacrificed across the country this year and 45 per cent of these animals were cows, bulls and buffaloes, according to rawhide traders.
A large amount of waste are being discharged from many substandard Central Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs) of Savar Tannery Industrial Estate into the Dhaleshwari River.
The flow of filthy water into the river has been intensified due to filtering in the faulty CETPs from such factories, tanneries traders and owners alleged.
Thursday mediated by the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI).
Representatives of Bangladesh Tanners Association (BTA), Bangladesh Finished Leather, Leather Goods and Footwear Exporters Association (BFLLFEA), Bangladesh Hide and Skin Merchants’ Association (BHSMA) and the Industries and Commerce Ministries were present at the meeting held at FBCCI office in Dhaka.
“Tannery industry owners have agreed to clear the arrears to rawhide merchants in three installments. We have called another meeting on August 31. We would discuss the issue there,” FBCCI president Sheikh Fazle Fahim said this after the meeting
Leaders of Bangladesh Hide and Skin Merchant Association said they would not sell any rawhide to tanners until they get the previous arrear of over Tk 300 crore.
“Repayment the dues is a continuous process. The merchants and tanners will sit tomorrow to discuss the issue, and both sides will meet again on August 31 in presence of the chamber leaders,” Sheikh Fazle Fahim said.
The prices of rawhides fell sharply during Eid-ul-Azha, and the hide merchants blamed it for fund crisis due to arrears to tanners and market manipulation by an active ‘syndicate’.
Before Eid-ul-Azha, the government had fixed the prices of rawhides of cows and buffaloes at Tk 45-50 per square foot in the capital and Tk 35-40 elsewhere. The price of the rawhide of castrated goats was fixed at Tk 18-20 per square foot, while it was Tk 13-15 for that of non-castrated goats.
But, cowhide was sold on an average between Tk 150 and Tk 250 a piece, while the average price of goatskin varied between Tk 10 and Tk 30 a piece, leading to an unprecedented chaos in the procurement of rawhides of the sacrificial animals this year.
Some 10 million animals were sacrificed across the country this year and 45 per cent of these animals were cows, bulls and buffaloes, according to rawhide traders.
