AHIMSA Leather

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.
Leather exports
http://www.leatherindia.org
% Share of leather products
Share of countries
Country wise
Country 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.
Wikepedia
% share of exports of leather from
different zones of India
Slaughterhouse Civilization!
Slaughterhouse Civilization
"You are killing innocent cows and other animalsnature 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 themselvesProtestants 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