Bangladesh has principal capability for exporting leather-essentially based entirely goods, but this capability is gradually diminishing due to compliance factors, stated AHM Shafiquzzaman, secretary of the Ministry of Labour and Employment.
“Bangladesh’s leather-essentially based entirely exports luxuriate in plummeted from $1.2 billion to $600 million, indicating that the sphere is slowly being destroyed. We must rob pressing run to revitalise it,” he stated at a workshop titled “Dissemination Workshop on Tannery Inspection Pointers,” held at a city hotel.
The programme change into organised by ‘Honest Working Prerequisites in Tanneries (GOTAIN)’ project of German-essentially based entirely Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).
Fairly about a the leather-essentially based entirely product exporters in Bangladesh luxuriate in failed to scheme Leather Working Community (LWG) certification, an internationally recognised typical, due to alternate’s incapacity to meet environmental and social compliance requirements. As a result, loads of Bangladesh’s factories are unable to straight export leather-essentially based entirely products to markets like European Union and The US, which alternate leaders notify about is contributing to the decline in exports.
Despite the undeniable truth that there change into optimism that relocating the tanneries from Hazaribagh to Savar, an outskirt of the capital, would make stronger the enviornment, this has now now not been the case. The Central Effluent Remedy Plant (CETP) is accumulated now now not entirely operational, and leather-essentially based entirely waste continues to pollute the native rivers, posing a principal environmental threat.
Addressing the enviornment, the labour secretary stated, “Beforehand, the Buriganga change into polluted due to concentration of tanneries in Hazaribagh, and now the native rivers in Savar are being polluted.”
Relating to a checklist from the Department of Atmosphere, he added, “The subject is the truth is alarming.”
There are 143 tanneries in Bangladesh at this time being operated.
The workshop aimed to educate and suppose connected teams about the guidelines for verifying compliance standards within the leather-essentially based entirely alternate.
Abdur Rahim Khan, inspector Customary of DIFE; Arif Ahmed Khan, extra inspector recurring of DIFE; Md Firoz Alam, head of the GOTAIN project at GIZ Bangladesh; Matiur Rahman, joint inspector recurring of DIFE; and Alina Monser, advisor for the GOTAIN project, furthermore spoke on the programme.
