Female tannery workers should have access to maternity leaves and other necessary health services to ensure safe childbirth, said speakers at a workshop yesterday.
On the first day of Eid-ul-Adha, more than 320,000 pieces of sacrificial animal rawhide entered the Savar tannery estate, according to Sakhawat Ullah, the General Secretary of the Bangladesh Tanners Association (BTA) and Managing Director of Salma Tannery. This year, the Bangladesh Tanners Association has set a target of collecting one crore rawhides. However, tannery owners
The government should allow more private companies to build effluent treatment plants (ETPs) inside Savar Tannery Industrial Estate (STIE), said Shaheen Ahmed, chairman of Bangladesh Tanners Association (BTA), yesterday.