Environmentally significant Sialkot Tannery Zone to be completed soon.

SIALKOT -- Sialkot Deputy Commissioner Dr Umer Sher Chattha has directed the officials of the departments concerned to speed up work on infrastructure development and ensure early completion of much delayed mega project of Sialkot Tannery Zone here.

He also assured all-out cooperation regarding early removal of all hurdles from the way of completion of this project. The DC was addressing the participants of a daylong awareness-raising workshop on 'Climate Change Emerging Issues, Adaptation Challenges and Recommendations for Leather Sector in Sialkot,' held at Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) under the auspices of United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) here.

A large number of the tanners, students of local universities, climate change experts, officials of Sialkot Tannery Zone Association, SCCI and Environment Protection Agency (EPA) attended. The DC said, 'the initiative of a well-equipped project of Sialkot Tannery Zone is a significant leap forward to modernize the Sialkot's leather industry in an environment friendly way'.

He pointed out that Sialkot industrialists and exporters have already proved them as to be the torch-bearers of promotion of corporate social responsibly by taking bold initiatives for infrastructure development and social services.

Dr Umer Sher Chattha narrated that the project of Sialkot Tannery Zone in collaboration with United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), will be a landmark achievement of public-private partnership in Sialkot. 'After completion, the project will significantly relieve the local population of water contamination and other environmental issues as well as introduce further development of leather industry in Sialkot,' he revealed.

The participants were told that the project of Sialkot Tannery Zone would be completed soon and all the 250 tanneries would be shifted to this zone for saving Sialkot city from hazardous environmental pollution being caused by these...