According to experts, easy access to the large market of approximately 450 million consumers in 27 European countries will directly benefit Uttar Pradesh's traditional industries as well as modern manufacturing.
Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal said that the Indian Footwear and Leather industry is not only a major foreign exchange earner but being a labour-intensive sector, it also provides employment to approximately 4.5 million people, 40 per cent of whom are women.
Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu is expected to launch a Rs 2,600 crore special package for the leather and…
Dubbing the Central government's amended rule forbidding cattle trade for slaughter as a "death certificate" to the leather industry, leather…
