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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Kanpur's Tanneries Are Collateral Damage in UP's Polarised Electoral Battle -Vivian Fernandes

Kanpur's Tanneries Are Collateral Damage in UP's Polarised Electoral Battle -Vivian Fernandes

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published Published on May 2, 2019   modified Modified on May 2, 2019
-TheWire.in

Nearly two months after the Kumbh Mela ended, tannery owners are still waiting for the go ahead to reopen.

Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh):
In Kanpur’s Jajmau cluster, 225 tanneries are still closed, even though the Maha Kumbh Mela ended on March 4. While the discharge created by the tanneries is being cited as the official reason, tannery owners say the state’s urban development and environment ministries, as well as the chief minister’s office, are playing a game of passing-the-file.

Since November 15 last year, all except 26 of the 251 tanneries were ordered shut in phases as chief minister Adityanath said that no sewage or industrial effluent should flow untreated into the Ganga. This was to ensure that pilgrims could have a cleaner dip lower down at the Allahabad confluence for the duration of the Kumbh.

It will soon be two months since the Kumbh ended. Tannery owners don’t know why the plants are still shut, or when they can re-open. Vijay Vishwas Pant, Kanpur’s district magistrate, advised The Wire to “talk to Lucknow,” where the state government is headquartered. He added that his administration has a made a recommendation, but wouldn’t disclose what it was. Earlier, in March, he had said the district administration had advised the state government to allow the tanneries to operate.

A senior Uttar Pradesh State Pollution Control Board official who was overseeing the Kanpur stretch of the Ganga, and requested anonymity, said the tanneries were never polluting the Ganga. The district administration was not in favour of an indefinite closure, which is why it had closed the tanneries down in phases after the Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam raised “false alarms thrice” about the discharge effluents being more than the sanctioned amount.

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TheWire.in, 30 April, 2019, https://thewire.in/politics/kanpurs-tanneries-are-collateral-damage-in-ups-polarised-electoral-battle


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