Dhaka, May 19 -- Ahead of the holy Eid al-Adha, the government has taken several pragmatic initiatives to preserve sacrificial animal hides across the country.

These include distributing free salt to madrasas, orphanages, and Lillah boarding houses, offering especial loan facilities to hide traders, and ensuring uninterrupted electricity supply to the BSCIC Leather Industrial City.

A taskforce formed to address the ongoing crisis in the leather industry and ensure the preservation of quality raw hides confirmed the information, reports BSS.

Free salt will be distributed nationwide to madrasas, orphanages, and Lillah boarding houses using government funds to prevent sacrificial hides from being damaged, according to sources from the tas...