Tamil Nadu accounts for 60 per centof leather tanning capacity in India and 38
per cent of all leather footwear, garmentsand components. Hundreds of leather and
tannery
facilities are located around Velloreand its nearby towns, such as
Ranipet, Amburand Vaniyambadi. The Vellore district is thetop exporter
of finished leather goods in thecountry. Chennai also has a large
numberof leather product making units involved inexports. There is
another clustering of leatherprocessing in Dindigul and Erode. The
leatherproducts sector too is a major employment
generator.Sivakasi
region, once famous for itsmatch industry has now become a majorcentre
for printing and fireworks in thecountry. It is believed to contribute
to 90%of India’s fireworks production, 80% of safetymatches and 60% of
offset printing solutions.The offset printing industry has a high
degreeof specialisation among firms with severalof them undertaking just
one operationrequired for printing. All these industrieshave their
origin in the colonial period and atpresent offer employment to a large
numberof workers.
10th One Mark - Work sheet 2023-24
Though Tamil Nadu has emerged as arelatively highly industrialised state in the
country,
the state faces a few issues in sustainingthe process. To begin with,
some clusters,especially chemicals, textiles and leatherclusters, tend
to generate a lot of pollutingeffluents that affect health. The
effluents alsopollute water bodies into which effluents areet into and
also adjoining agricultural lands.Second, employment generation
potential hasdeclined because of use of frontier technologiesbecause of
the need to compete globally. Qualityof employment also has suffered in
recent years as most workers are employed only temporarily
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