National Green Tribunal (NGT) has given permission to two out of the 91 closed tanneries of the city to operate on Friday.

Fate of the remaining tanneries would be decided on August 10 after the NGT judges hear the matter again, said Asad Kamal and Javed Iqbal, members of All Over India Environmental Sustainibility committee for tanneries. The NGT has given sanction to Mahfooz Akhtar and one other tannery of Jajmau to operate.

The advocate general representing state had raised the issue before NGT following which NGT had ordered to close down 98 tanneries of Kanpur in February 2015 for causing pollution by their effluents. Later, the NGT had ordered to open seven tanneries on May 19 and 91 tanneries on May 26, 2015 on a trial basis....................Read more

Source web page: Times of India