Industry Minister Amir Hossain Amu on Monday said the tannery owners must relocate their factories from Hazaribagh to the new tannery estate in Savar by April. The minister issued the fresh deadline as no tannery unit was fully relocated to Savar as per the deadline that ended on Monday. He also warned that rawhide would not be allowed to enter tannery factories at Hazaribagh to avert environment pollution. “I have talked with the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and she has agreed that no raw hide will be allowed to enter the tannery factories in Hazaribagh,” the industry minister said while participating in the thanksgiving motion on the president’s speech in parliament. Pointing to chemical plants situated haphazardly at city’s different areas, Amu said the government has moved to build a separate industrial estate at the city’s outskirt—Keraniganj for chemical plants. Turning to January 5, 2014 national elections, the minister lambasted those who opposed holding of the polls. “They [those who opposed the January 5 polls] wanted to turn Bangladesh into a failed state like Pakistan. They wanted to create anarchy in the country through foiling the election. But people have failed their conspiracy in this regard,” he observed.
