Shifting of tanneries: Kanpur exporters losing business to Pakistan

Exporters in the city estimate they've lost about 50% of their exports to the neighbouring country

The ban on slaughterhouses and the proposed shifting of tanneries from Kanpur in name of cleaning the Ganga is hampering leather exports from the country, with enterprises in Kanpur losing business to their competitors in Pakistan.

The recent crisis in the leather industry is steadily impacting the Rs 6,000 crore annual export business from the city, and exporters based there estimate that at least 50 per cent of their export business has already gone to Pakistan.

Kanpur's leather industry provides employment to around 300,000 people directly or indirectly. The city's leather exporters were already facing tough competition from