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Parliamentary committee orders immediate shutdown of tannery estate in Savar Savar Tannery Estate
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Parliamentary committee orders immediate shutdown of tannery estate in Savar

Bangladesh Live News | @banglalivenews | 24 Aug 2021, 06:25 pm

Dhaka, August 24: The parliamentary committee has asked to close down the tannery estate in Savar for failing to curb pollution and mismanagement of waste. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has made such a recommendation.

After the meeting, committee chairman Saber Hossain Chowdhury confirmed the news to reporters. The recommendation was made at a meeting held at the Parliament House on Monday (August 23) afternoon.

The meeting was chaired by Saber Hossain Chowdhury and members of the committee Environment Minister Md. Shahab Uddin, Nazim Uddin Ahmed, Zafar Alam, Md. Rezaul Karim Bablu, Khodeja Nasrin Akter Hossain and Shaheen Chakladar took part in the meeting.

"The Department of Environment has visited the tannery estate in Savar more than once. We also went there on behalf of the parliamentary committee. The production is far greater than the waste management capacity of the place. Fines have made at different times, but that is not a permanent solution. That's why we asked to stop," Saber Hossain Chowdhury said.

"Liquid waste management system is available in Savar. There is no system for heavy metal and chromium waste management," he added.

The ministry told the parliamentary committee that the tannery estate in Savar produces 40,000 cubic meters of waste daily. Where the waste management capacity is 25,000 cubic meters. In other words, 15,000 cubic meters of waste is being mixed in the environment daily. In the last three years, 1,64,00,000 cubic meters of waste has remained out of management.