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Leather Industry in India

Second largest consumer! Second largest producer! There has been a phenomenal growth in

exports from Rs.320 million in the year 1965-66 to Rs.69558 million in 1996-97. Indian leather industry today has attained well merited recognition in international markets besides occupying a prominent place among the top seven foreign exchange earners of the country.

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% Share of leather products

Share of countries

Country wiseCountry 1998-99 Share in total

exports in 1998-99

Germany 15462 22.23 %

USA 10826 15.56 %

Italy 8317 11.96 %

UK 9744 14.00 %

France 3240 4.6 %

Spain 3103 4.46 %

Russia 1009 1.445 %

Portugal 1240 1.78 %

Australia 1465 2.10 %

Denmark 808 1.16 %

Netherlands 2127 3.06 %

Hong Kong 258 3.25 % Others 9958 14.32 % Total 69558 100 %

Top ten Indian Leather Exporters

Tata International Ltd.

Florind Shoes Ltd.

Punihani International

Farida Shoes Ltd.

Mirza Tanners Ltd.

T. Abdul Wahid & Company

Hindustan Lever Ltd.

Super House Leather Ltd.

RSL Industries Ltd.

Presidency Kid Leather Ltd.

Huge Industry!

Sector Total Employment

Flaying, curing & Carcass Recovery 8,00,000

Tanning & Finishing 1,25,000

Full Shoe 1,75,000

Shoe Uppers 75,000

Chappals & Sandals 4,50,000

Leather Goods & Garments 1,50,000

Indian Leather Footwear Industry

India is the world's second largest producer of footwear; its production estimated over 700 million pairs per annum. At about US $ 300 million per year, footwear accounts for 18 percent share of total exports of leather exports.

Various types of shoes produced and exported from India include dress shoes, casuals, moccasins, sports shoes, horacchis, sandals, ballerinas, and booties. Major production centres are Chennai (Madras), Delhi, Agra, Kanpur, Mumbai (Bombay), Calcutta and Jalandhar.

Most of the modern footwear manufacturers in India are already supplying to well established brands in Europe and USA. The large domestic market and the opportunity to cater to world markets makes India an attractive destination for technology and investments. Equally relevant is it for the footwear components industry, at this juncture, it is posed for real growth and diversification.

In Kanpur, the self-proclaimed "Leather City of World" and a city of 3 million people on the banks of the river Ganges, pollution levels were so high that despite an industry crisis, the pollution control board has decided to seal 49 high-polluting tanneries out of 404 in July 2009.[8] In 2003 for instance, the main tanneries' effluent disposal unit was dumping 22 tonnes of chromium-laden solid waste per day in the open.

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% share of exports of leather from different zones of India

Slaughterhouse Civilization!

Slaughterhouse Civilization

"You are killing innocent cows and other animals—nature will take revenge. Just wait. As soon as the time is right, nature will gather all these rascals and slaughter them. Finished. They'll fight amongst themselves—Protestants and Catholics, Russia and America, this one and that one. It is going on. Why? That is nature's law. Tit for tat. "You have killed. Now you kill yourselves." They are sending animals to the slaughterhouse, and now they'll create their own slaughterhouse. [Imitating gunfire:] Tung! Tung! Kill! Kill! You see?...

Srila Prabhupada, "Slaughterhouse civilization",JSD 6.5

Slaughterhouse Civilization!

Menaka Gandhi's report

Slaughterhouse Civilization!

"PRABHUPADA: Cow slaughter is the greatest sinful activity. They don't know what they are doing. Therefore, a thorough overhaul is required; otherwise their stool-bound brains can't be cleansed. Yes, we are washing your brain, because you have so much stool in your brain. We are sweepers engaged on behalf of God to wash the stool from your brain. We have to do it."

Srila Prabhupada, Conversation, Calcutta, India, Jan 1977

Slaughterhouse Civilization!

“Our sankirtana tainted with BLOOD OF SLAUGHTER!”

“Strategies to overhaul the SLAUGHTERHOUSE CIVILIZATION”

Case for AHIMSA LEATHER

Leather from hides obtained from naturall dead protected cow

Footwear & Mrdangas

Strategy

Registration of “Ahimsa Leather Trust” Construction on land Machinery purchase & installation Trial production