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No new tanneries for Jajmau

25/05/2010
The government of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has informed the local leather industries association, the UPLA, that it will not permit any new tanning operations to set up in the Kanpur suburb of Jajmau.

At the same time, the government made it clear that the 418 tanneries that are in operation there already that they must improve their performance in waste management. Jajmau is on the banks of the River Ganges.

UPLA secretary, Imran Siddique, said on May 24 that his organisation supported moves to improve the environmental performance of the leather industry in Uttar Pradesh and even supported a government order that 65 Jajmau tanneries must move to a new site at Unnao, outside Kanpur.


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