KASUR TANNERIES POLLUTION CONTROL PROJECT (KTPC)
  - A DOCUMENTARY

The Kasur is known as the most heavily polluted area in Pakistan, unfortunately. The waste from the tanning cluster had made the life of local people a nightmare.
The place was such that nobody would like to live there on his own good will, and it was due to the environmental situation of Kasur. Dumps of filthy flesh wastes lied here and there. Bad smell was really intolerable.


There are reported cases in our personal knowledge according to which even the passerby in their vehicles could not stand the nuisance and started vomiting. Now one can imagine the miserable life of people of Kasur.

Even worse is the fact that they could not even enjoy the clean drinking water. The continuously discharged effluent has seeped down to the 600ft depth of the land. And furthermore due to unavailability of the proper pumping facilities, they had to compromise with the polluted poisonous water. The contaminated water had exposed the people of Kasur to dangerous and fatal diseases like abdominal diseases, gastric cancer, tuberculosis, malaria, etc. this has cost the lives of many innocent publics.

One major loss was the accumulation of discharged effluent which caused the formation of four stagnant pools covering over 400 acres of agricultural land. This was not only the national loss but it also deprived number of people from respectable employment.