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Bengal leather sector seeks more funds for upgradation
Our Bureau
Kolkata
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Jan. 21
THE Indian Leather Technologists' Association (ILTA) along with other agencies has pitched for a substantial share of the leather sector upgradation fund from the Centre for technical development and modernisation of the industry in West Bengal.
The Rs 400-crore technical upgradation programme is scheduled to be implemented in the Tenth Plan Period.
Talking to newspersons here following the inauguration of a leather exposition (Lexpo), the Minister-in-charge of small and cottage industry in West Bengal, Mr Bansagopal Chaudhury, said that the Centre has recently requisitioned the State's consent on the ILTA project. "We will approve the same shortly".
ILTA in association with the Council for Leather Exports and the Italian Trade Commission is currently working to set up a service centre here to provide laboratory, testing design and marketing support to the leather industry.
Regarding the delay in shifting tanneries from Kolkata to the Calcutta Leather Complex, he said that the State Government had already made it clear that tanneries would not be allowed to operate at their existing locations in the city.
"A section of tanneries has adopted a delaying tactics to avoid the shifting but that will not pay."
On the small tanners, he said that though there were some initial problems in allotting land to them, things were lately sorted out.
On the overall SSI and cottage industry, Mr Chaudhury said that the single window service of the Small Industries Development Agency (SIDA) is being relocated to the West Bengal Small Industries Development Corporation.
Curved out of the Directorate for SSI sector, SIDA is practically rendered jobless during the last two years.
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