Leather Park proposal will move Kanpur cluster away from the Ganges

21/06/2021

The authorities in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have begun to talk more positively about the local leather cluster, centred on Kanpur.

Following lengthy closures of more than 200 tanneries in the cluster in 2019, which the authorities claimed was necessary to lower levels of pollution in the River Ganges, there were fears that many leather manufacturing facilities may never reopen.