341 trucks carrying 80,000 rawhides enter Savar tannery

Advance preparations by tannery owners, coupled with smooth traffic flow in and around Dhaka help ease the process

At least 341 trucks carrying 79,218 rawhides of animals sacrificed on Eid-ul-Azha have entered the leather industrial estate in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka.

These vehicles arrived there from different areas in and around the capital until 8pm Thursday, the Eid day.

The concerned authorities said the trucks managed to arrive quickly without any inconvenience due to advance preparations by tannery owners and the absence of traffic jams on the highways in and around Dhaka.

Md Mehrajul Maiyan, executive engineer at the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation in the estate, said the influx of trucks started in the afternoon.

The trucks carried 78,515 hides of cows and buffaloes. And the rest (703) were goatskins and sheep hides.

Meanwhile, Commerce Minister Khandakar Abdul Muktadir, inspecting the trading of rawhides in Aminbazar, told reporters: "There is no possibility of sacrificial animal hides being smuggled this time.

“Because we’re working round the clock in the places where the skins are collected from."

He is hopeful that more skins can be preserved this time than in any other year in the past.

The minister said they are keeping an eye so rawhides are not damaged this season.