UNIDO Sialkot plans at “advanced stage”
23/04/2015
With money from a fund it has set up called the Global Environmental Facility (GEF), UNIDO is offering technical assistance with the planning of the STZ, including the design of a new common effluent treatment plant and a common waste management programme.
The project is a public-private partnership and is being led by a non-profit organisation set up for the purpose, the Sialkot Tannery Association (Guarantee) Limited, which has the backing of the Pakistani government.
UNIDO was able to present its design for the common effluent treatment plant to the company and to its partners in the government during the April meetings and said afterwards that the project “has now reached an advanced stage”.
It said its aim was to help Sialkot tanners move to a more environmentally friendly production set-up, saying this will be “a prerequisite for the survival and growth of this export-oriented sector that is vital for Pakistan’s economy”.
Part of the tannery zone plan is a green belt containing more than 50,000 trees. On 21 April, UNIDO representatives joined local partners to begin the task of planting these trees.
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