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Leather Industry
Artisans the untold story
Issue Date: Mar 31, 1996
BHOLA Ram Kumawat still makes the best wooden toys inUdaipur; but he may well be the craft's last sentinel.Kumawatbelongs to a family of renowned toymakersbut his son drawshandcarts for a living and his wife is a domestic help. Says the70old manThere are no forests left now - no khirni
(Wrightia tinctoria) trees. How do we continue our craft?
Unless the government acts soon, Udaipur's art will die.
Tannery convicted
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2009
All owners dead except one
after a trial lasting 25 years, a special court in Lucknow convicted the owners of a tannery for polluting river water.
On June 2, the court sentenced the owners of East India Leather Company to six months' imprisonment and slapped a fine of Rs 9,000 on them.
In 1984 the Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board accused the tannery of not having a primary treatment plant and discharging untreated effluents
Why Ganga Action Plan is a pipe dream
Issue Date: Feb 29, 2008
Jaiswal said the obnoxious odours marked that our destination was close. He waved the driver to stop the vehicle near what looked like a large tank. Muddy, frothy water was issuing from a corroded pipe. The tannery stench was back.
California lifts kangaroo goods ban
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2008
The us state California has lifted a three-decade-old ban on the sale of goods made from kangaroo leather.
New process to minimise chemical, energy use in making leather
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2007
conventional leather production consumes high levels of energy and a number of chemicals. The process releases toxic
substances. Scientists from Tamil Nadu have developed an enzyme-based technology which minimises all these.
Kolkata tanners unhappy with new relocation site
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2007
Until a decade ago, Kim Li Loi, Canton and Hot Wok, restaurants in the Chinatown locality of eastern Kolkata's Tangra district, collectively served as
a tannery among scores of others run by Chinese immigrants. But a December 19, 1996, Supreme Court order directed these and other inner city
Young scientists in Kolkata make leather out of fish skin
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2006
leather has always been in vogue. This time round, it will be eco-friendly leather that will dominate the markets if the two final-year students of the Government College of Engineering and Leather Technology, Kolkata, get a patent for their product -- eco-friendly leather made out of fish skin.
Highrise in loose mud
Issue Date: Mar 15, 2006
early Tamil Muslim tannery owners, settling on a piece of land by the Mahim river in Mumbai, called it Dharavi. It is Tamil for loose mud. Early January this year, at the Pravasi Diwas at Hyderabad, non-resident Indian businessmen were upbeat over the opportunity in this loose mud. The refashioning of Dharavi, Asia's largest slum, has been on the cards for a while. But the plan has gathered sudden momentum in the past few months.
Getting the tan right
Issue Date: Feb 28, 2006
a group of scientists at the Chennai-based Central Leather Research Institute (clri) has developed two cost-effective and eco-friendly techniques to remove chromium from the effluents discharged by tanning units.
Tannery menace
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2005
farmers in Erode district of Tamil Nadu (tn) have strongly protested against effluents from tannery industries polluting the Kalingarayan canal, a subsidiary of the river Bhavani.
The 91-kilometre Kalingarayan canal has nearly 44 tannery industries and 532 dyeing units near it. Coloured effluents from these units have affected the biota in the local stream. In the long run, dissolved oxygen in the canal water would get reduced and affect aquatic life in the Bhavani river.
