Savar Tannery

Savar Tannery

Rawhide salting at Posta in Old Dhaka on Eid-ul-Adha 2025. Photo: Rajib Dhar/TBS

Lease term, loan settlement emerge as challenges over Savar Tannery shift to Bepza

The barriers include the lease term of land under the Bepza, how the loans taken from various banks and financial institutions during the Bscic period be settled, and how new charges are determined...

Housing and Public Works Minister RAM Obaidul Muktadir Chowdhury at a Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS) seminar on 27 June. Photo: Collected

Even after relocating tanneries from Hazaribagh to Savar, pollution problems still follow: Minister

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Savar Tannery Estate: How ready is it for this Eid?

Three years on, 76% of Savar tanneries yet to pay Tk150cr plot fees to Bscic

Three years on, 76% of Savar tanneries yet to pay Tk150cr plot fees to Bscic

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Tannery workers demand decent working conditions, scope for growth

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With smooth power supply arrangement, overhauled CETP, Savar tannery ready for Eid

Toxic Savar tannery waste smuggled out, sold to animal feed-makers

Toxic Savar tannery waste smuggled out, sold to animal feed-makers

Photo: Mumit M/TBS

Tannery owners feel relief over long awaited environmental clearance

Power rationing: Savar tanneries counting huge production losses

Power rationing: Savar tanneries counting huge production losses

LafargeHolcim to dispose of Savar tannery solid waste

LafargeHolcim to dispose of Savar tannery solid waste

Photo: Mumit M/TBS

Initiative to turn Savar tannery solid waste into products 

A road overflows with liquid effluent from pipelines connected to tannery factories. Due to the loadshedding, a number effluent pumping stations shut down at various points, leading to the water overflowing onto the roads and then reaching Dhaleshwari river untreated through surface drains. Photo: TBS

Load shedding leads to Savar tannery waste overflows, environmental pollution

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7 tanneries shut down in Savar for polluting river