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More in the offing: A.B. Mandal, Director, Central Leather Research Institute, addressing a training programme in Dindigul on Thursday. DINDIGUL: Eleven Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CFTP) in the State would be modernised at a cost of Rs.150 crore, with 25 per cent contribution from industries, said Asit Baran Mandal, Director, Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI). He was inaugurating an advanced training programme for primary and secondary level tannery workers under Human Resource Development Mission Programme, jointly organised by the CLRI and Dindigul Tanners’ Association here on Thursday. The Centre would give 60 per cent of the total cost, and the State’s contribution 15 per cent. The project would ensure zero waste water discharge from the plants. All the plants in the country would be modernised. Dindigul plant alone would be modernised at a cost of Rs. 23 crore. New processing technology would be introduced and existing facilities upgraded. After processing, the treated water could be used again for processing. Reverse osmosis system would be introduced for processing effluents. A power generating plant would be setup to utilise residue generated from the CETP. The plant would have solar evaporation plot for safe disposal of solid residual wastes. A site for solar plot was identified near the CETP. Besides, The CETP will have an Up flow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket facility at a cost of Rs.5 crore, he added. “Our aim is not to discharge anything outside the CETP.” Bio processingOn leather tanning through bio processing instead of chemical processing, Mr. Mandal said that the CLRI had developed enzymes to process leather. “It is a grand success at the laboratory level. These enzymes will hit the market within a year.” The CLRI would celebrate it s diamond jubilee on April 24 in Chennai. Technical seminars and lectures would be held on the occasion. N.K. Chandra Babu, Deputy Director, CLRI, said that the institute had trained 1.5 lakh tannery workers. More tannery clusters would be covered this year. A. Mohideen, vice-chairman, Dindigul Tanners’ Association, appealed to the Central Government to withdraw 15 per cent export duty on semi-finished leather, popularly known as East India leather, to compete with their counterparts in Bangladesh and Pakistan in the international market. Those countries offered incentives for leather exports.
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