Power cuts have forced 2,000 to leave Tamil Nadu leather industry
18/12/2012
In comments to local media, Rafeeque Ahmed, chairman of the Council for Leather Exports, said recently: “As many as 2,000 people have gone out of the industry from this district alone.”
He confirmed that the situation had mostly affected small and medium-sized companies, but warned that Vellore district accounts for almost 30% of the Indian leather industry’s annual revenues of $5 billion.
Power cuts there can last for up to 10 hours a day.
Reports put the total number of tanneries in India at the moment at 2,091, 45% of which are in Tamil Nadu, 26% in West Bengal and 18% in Uttar Pradesh.
Share this story:
