Industries Secretary Zakia Sultana said the government will set up two more CETPs in Dhaka and one in Chattogram in a bid to proper and environment-friendly preservation of hide. "Every year around one crore animals are slaughtered during the eid-ul-adha while another one crore animals are slaughtered round the year across the country, so it needs more Centrally Effluent Treatment Plants (CETP) for perfect preservation and maintaining the quality of total 2 crore hides", said Zakia Sultana.
She made the remarks while talking to newsmen during her visit to the BSCIC Tannery Industrial Park at Hemayetpur in Savar on Tuesday. “Leather conservation management has become more environmentally friendly this year than any time in the past. This has been possible due to the task force, formed to making recommendations and action plans for the development of the leather industry and the close monitoring and supervision of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce”, she added.
On the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha, She visited the Tannery park to watch whether the directives of the task force committee regarding leather conservation management and leather industry coming from all over the country are being properly followed.
Zakia Sultana said, this time the CETP of BSCIC Tannery Industrial Park has been fully prepared. All its modules have been overhauled and thoroughly tested and repaired. The liquid waste is treated with necessary chemicals. Besides, biological treatment system is in operation.
She said that necessary instructions have been given in a meeting of all departments concerned and district commissioners for the purpose of preserving hides well with salt locally. Apart from free supply of salt to Madrasahs and orphanages from BSCIC, adequate supply of salt has been arranged across the country.
It should be noted that in the history of Bangladesh in the last 63 years, the maximum 24 lakh 37 thousand metric tons of salt has been produced this year.
She also said that during the seven days of the holy Eid-ul-Azha, the entry of raw hides into Dhaka has been banned so that there is no extra pressure on the CETP of the BSCIC Tannery Industrial Park so that they can easily and periodically store and process the hides.
BSCIC Chairman (Grade-1) Sanjoy Kumar Bhowmik, AHM Shafiquzzaman, Director General, Directorate of National Consumer Rights, Kamrun Nahar Siddiqa, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Industries and Md Shamimul Haque were also present during the inspection.
