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the rest 54 acres have been sold by the BOT party directly to the new tanneries at market rate. |
the rest 54 acres have been sold by the BOT party directly to the new tanneries at market rate. |
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The land use pattern in CLC is as follows: |
The land use pattern in CLC is as follows: |
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• Tanneries: |
• Tanneries: 238 acres |
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• Leather goods units/footwear units/manufacturing units: 72.57 acres |
• Leather goods units/footwear units/manufacturing units: 72.57 acres |
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• Raw material Mart, Chemical units By-Product Units: 61.30 acres |
• Raw material Mart, Chemical units By-Product Units: 61.30 acres |
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'''Leather complex lost in transition''' <ref>http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090317/jsp/calcutta/story_10673528.jsp</ref> |
'''Leather complex lost in transition''' <ref>http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090317/jsp/calcutta/story_10673528.jsp</ref> |
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Leading Kolkata newspaper, The Telegraph reports, A project larger than the Nano that Bengal lost to Gujarat is going waste because the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government is bungling in Bantala after slipping in Singur. |
Leading Kolkata newspaper, [[The Telegraph (Calcutta)]] reports, A project larger than the Nano that Bengal lost to Gujarat is going waste because the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government is bungling in Bantala after slipping in Singur. |
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At 1,200 acres, the Calcutta Leather Complex — located around 14km from Science City — was supposed to be the world’s largest. |
At 1,200 acres, the Calcutta Leather Complex — located around 14km from Science City — was supposed to be the world’s largest. |
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The cumulative capital of around Rs 1,500 crore was 50 per cent more than the initial investment earmarked for the Nano factory. |
The cumulative capital of around Rs 1,500 crore was 50 per cent more than the initial investment earmarked for the Nano factory. |
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Revision as of 11:31, 5 October 2014
Calcutta Leather Complex | |
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Planned Industrial Town | |
 Calcutta Leather Complex, Gate No-1 | |
| Nickname: Bantalla | |
| Country |  India |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | South 24 Parganas |
| Area | |
• Total | 4.5 km2 (1.7 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
• Total | 238 Tanneries |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Urdu, Bengali, Hindi |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 743 502 |
At 1,200 acres, the Calcutta Leather Complex — located around 14km from Science City — was supposed to be the world’s largest[1].There are 9 zones in CLC having 6 numbers of Effluent Pumping Stations (EPS) for carrying effluent from the tanneries to the Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP). The waste water transporting network is of approximately 22 km. Effluent flows to the collection wells in 6 EPS by gravity. Diameter of pipelines of Effluent Transportation System (ETS) network varies from 200 mm-630 mm. The CEPTP at CLC currently has 4 modules of 5 Million Litres Per Day (MLD) each thereby having a total capacity of 20 MLD. 2 more modules with a capacity of 5 MLD each is proposed to be built in the Complex as per the Hon’ble Supreme Court directive. The two modules of Common Chrome Recovery Unit (CCRU) each of 120 cu. mtr. Capacity have been installed and presently 80-100 cu. mtr. of effluent is being treated. A Treated Effluent and Sump Pumping Station having a capacity of 20 MLD has been constructed for direct discharge of the treated effluent from CETP to the SWF canal. The CLC started its operations from 30th July 2005. The total area over which the complex have been set up is about 1100 acres of land in the mouzas of Bhatipota Gangapur and Karaidanga in South 24 Parganas. Out of the total 1100 acres of land only 566 acres of land are saleable. Of this 202 acres have been earmarked for the operations of Tanneries. Of this 202 acres of land 148 acres have been leased out by GoWB @Rs.600 per sq. mtr. to the relocating tanneries and the rest 54 acres have been sold by the BOT party directly to the new tanneries at market rate. The land use pattern in CLC is as follows: • Tanneries: 238 acres • Leather goods units/footwear units/manufacturing units: 72.57 acres • Raw material Mart, Chemical units By-Product Units: 61.30 acres • Public Utility Area viz. Hospital, Housing, School etc.: 67.17 acres • Special Economic Zone (SEZ): 110 acres • IT Park: 130 acres. A total of 438 relocating tanneries have received lease hold land at the Calcutta Leather Complex and 138 new tanneries have purchased land directly from the BOT party at market rate. Of these, 365 relocating and 98 new tanneries have received NOC for Consent to Establish from WBPCB. Out of the 365 relocating tanneries, 222 relocating tanneries have received NOC for Consent to Operate. 71 out of 98 new tanneries have received NOC for Consent to Operate.
Funding Pattern
In November 2007 Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved a cost of Rs.135.44 crore for the construction of Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) Network which includes construction of CETP Modules 1 to 6, Effluent Transportation System (ETS), Common Chrome Recovery System (CCRS), Solid Waste Management System and Treated Effluent Sump and Pumping Station (TESPS). As per the approval the cost was to be equally shared by State Government and Government of India. Till date an amount of Rs.43.23 crore has been received from Government of India through NRCD as against the share of Rs.67.22 crore. State Government has already released Rs.44.12 crore for the above purpose.
Criticism
Leather complex lost in transition [2]
Leading Kolkata newspaper, The Telegraph (Calcutta) reports, A project larger than the Nano that Bengal lost to Gujarat is going waste because the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government is bungling in Bantala after slipping in Singur. At 1,200 acres, the Calcutta Leather Complex — located around 14km from Science City — was supposed to be the world’s largest. The cumulative capital of around Rs 1,500 crore was 50 per cent more than the initial investment earmarked for the Nano factory. So, what has gone wrong? According to a source in the leather industry, each of the stakeholders is to blame for the failure of the project. Metro took a tour of the complex, now drowned in slush and stench, to find out what ails the facility. Only 238 of the 538 registered tanneries have shifted to Bantala. The rest refuse to do so because it doesn’t make sense for them to shift to a location where the facilities don’t measure up to what they had been promised. “The leather complex is the victim of sheer bad planning. Nothing has been executed in a planned manner,” says a tannery owner, Khurshid Alam.
The Central Leather Research Institute had recommended that the Calcutta-Basanti highway, which leads to the leather complex, be widened to four lanes. It had also suggested that a separate road be laid for vehicles ferrying raw animal hide to the complex to prevent air pollution along the EM Bypass.
None of these recommendations was adhered to
“A huge open space is not enough for a world-class leather complex. Planning and systematic execution is required to make such a huge facility workable,” says Ramesh Juneja, the president of the Calcutta Leather Complex Tanners’ Association.
INFRASTRUCTURE
The twin objectives mentioned in the 1995 agreement between the government and the developer of the complex, ML Dalmiya & Company, were to relocate tanneries from the city to a controlled environment and develop an export-oriented leather township that would compete with the ones in Kanpur and Chennai.
Tannery owner Iqbal Alam now laughs at the mere suggestion of a “world-class facility” in Bantala. “Leave alone world-class infrastructure, one can’t even have a landline phone there because BSNL hasn’t set up any equipment. The complex plunges into darkness every night because there are no lights. It is ridiculous to even suggest that this will be a state-of-the-art facility.”
Kolkata tanners unhappy with new relocation site [3]
The order to formalise the leather sector in Kolkata is linked to M C Mehta v Union of India, Writ Petition (Civil) No 3727 of 1985, which was initially Down to Earthdirected against tanneries in Kanpur. The scope of the petition was thereafter enlarged to call upon industries located on the banks of the Ganga to stop discharging untreated effluent into it. According to a 1995 report of the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, presence of chrome-based tanning among Kolkata tanners, with inappropriate wastewater drainage and collection systems, was causing serious environmental, health and hygiene problems. The report indicated that the highly congested habitations offered little or no scope for future expansion, modernisation or installation of effluent treatment plants.
With imminent signs of their businesses being thwarted, the tannery association filed a review petition highlighting what they claimed to be an 'erroneous' final judgement of the apex court. The tanners argued that the Kolkata leather tanneries case was wrongly linked to the Ganga Action Plan (GAP) since discharge from the tanneries did not flow into the Ganga. They said that the tanneries were not situated near the banks of the river. But officials of the National River Conservation Directorate said the river action plan looked beyond mere direct outfalls into the river. The tanners raised another objection saying the proposed leather complex was located within the East Kolkata Wetlands. But this too was snubbed by a report submitted by the collector, South 24-Parganas, providing evidence that the claim was not true.[4]