Eid brings temporary reprieve for Hazaribagh
06/09/2017
Eid-al-Adha, also known as the Festival of the Sacrifice, which fell this year in the first days of September, involves families and communities slaughtering a whole cow, sheep or goat and sharing the meat with the poor.
A final count-up suggests the event in Bangladesh generated around 8 million hides and skins over just a few days and tanners argued that the new cluster at Savar does not yet have the infrastructure to allow them to process such a large volume of material quickly.
General secretary of the Bangladesh Tanners’ Association, Shakhawat Ullah, told local media that the authorities relaxed a bar on using the old facilities at Hazaribagh partly because the roads around the new leather industry zone at Savar are too dilapidated for trucks to enter and leave the area fast enough to prevent the raw material from going to waste.
So far, of more than 150 tanneries that operated at Hazaribagh, only 23 are functioning fully and 47 partially at Savar as construction work continues.
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