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Pollution concerns in Savar industrial zone

Published: September 12, 2016

Environmental organisations are intensifying pressure on Bangladesh’s government as the Central Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) in the Savar tannery zone is still not yet operational.

Green activists put pressure on Savar relocation

Published: January 20, 2016

Following the new extension of relocation deadline, environmental pressure groups have demanded the cancellation of allocated plots in the Savar Leather Industrial Park.

Relocation happening at a snails pace

Published: March 16, 2015

Despite the deadline for relocation being extended several times, the shifting of the tanneries from Hazaribagh to Savar will not be completed by the June next year as the process is moving at snail’s pace says a local environmental group.