Pakistan Gloves Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PGMEA) Chairman Muhammad Younis has said that the leather glove industry is facing a gradual decline and the government is not serious about solving the issue.
Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, Younis said although a number of people were benefiting from exports of raw material - wet blue split leather, thousands of industrialists and labourers were losing out. He revealed that out of about 250 industrial units, where wet blue split leather was used, about 50 per cent had closed down due to shortage of raw leather and over 200,000 industrial workers had become unemployed.
He said that split leather is passed through 26 different stages, prior to becoming a value-added product.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 11th, 2011.
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