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35% of tanneries in Hazaribagh have relocated to Savar
About 35 percent of tanneries in Hazaribagh have relocated to the leather industrial estate in Savar, Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu has said.
Published : 11 June 2017, 09:15 AM
Updated : 11 June 2017, 09:53 AM
Fifty-five of the 154 tanneries in Savar have started production, said Amu in response to a question from Jatiya Party MP Nurul Islam Milon in parliament on Sunday.
The remaining tanneries have continued building construction and installation of machinery, he said.
On Mar 6, the High Court ordered the closure of all tanneries in Dhaka city immediately following a writ petition filed by the Bangladesh Environment Lawyers Association or BELA.
Leather businesses challenged the order in the Appellate Division, but failed to secure a verdict in their favour.
Following the appeals court's order, they then moved the High Court, seeking permission to run operations until the Eid-Ul-Azha, to be observed in the first week of September.
The appeal was rejected by the High Court on Mar 29.
The owners had been reluctant despite repeated orders to shift their tanneries to the leather industrial zone at Savar.
Following the Supreme Court order, the Department of Environment in April cut off gas, power and water lines to leather factories in Hazaribagh, forcing the plants to shut operations.
LPG price
The retail price of a 12.5kg cylinder of liquefied petroleum gas or LPG, fixed by the government, is Tk 700, State Minister of Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid said in parliament.
But private companies retail LPG to customers at a price between Tk 850 and Tk 1,000 per 12.5kg cylinder.
“BPC-registered dealers cannot sell to consumers above the fixed retail price. If evidence is found that dealers are doing so their licences will be revoked,” Hamid said.
The Rural Electrification Board has targeted the construction of 33,789km of power lines in fiscal 2017-18.
The government increased the daily production of natural gas by over 1 billion cubic feet, Hamid said.
“This is still insufficient. There is currently a daily shortage of 600 million cubic feet.”
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