Calcutta, March 21 :    Calcutta, March 21:  The industries department on Thursday asked the tanneries to re-submit forms, explaining their production capacities and input requirements, to dispel the controversy on overstepping the production limits set for the Calcutta Leather Complex (CLC). 'We have told the tanners not to overstate their capacities,' said Jawhar Sircar, principal secretary, commerce and industries department. Sircar had convened a meeting with representatives of 15 tanning associations during the day. He has contacted officials of the state pollution control board (PCB), who have already given the go-ahead to relocate about 217 tanneries at the CLC. According to the PCB, consent granted to the tanneries had touched the 1,000-tonnes-a-day production limit set for the CLC, keeping in mind the daily groundwater requirement to produce the amount. The Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI), after extensive studies on the tanning industry in Topsia, Tangra and Tiljala, had fixed a tanning output of 1,000 tonnes a day in units spread across about 330 acres, based on the availability of groundwater, which was set at 30 million litres a day. 'It is obvious that some tanners had overstated their actual capacities and created an unnecessary confusion,' Sircar said. He added that the PCB had agreed to treat the consent given so far as provisional. Fresh provisions will be screened, keeping in mind the present capacity of each individually-relocated tannery. The government, keen to set things on motion before the Supreme Court reviews the situation on April 2, has also made it clear that the tanners have to act fast, so that the process of relocation becomes realistic and shows progress. The 530-odd tanneries in the city had been served with a closure order by the Supreme Court from March 1 this year. The commerce and industries department has asked the district administration in South 24-Parganas to process all building plans, submitted by the tanners, without delay. The CLC complex at Bantala, as well as the constructions on it, fall under the jurisdiction of the South 24-Parganas zilla parishad. The building department of the zilla parishad has been asked to increase the number of counters at its Alipore office so that permissions can be granted without delay. In fact, barring Muharram and Doljatra next week, the counters have been ordered to be kept open to facilitate speedy processing. Currently, about 185 building plans have been approved and the rest have been asked to submit theirs in the next seven days. 'We want to get as many building plans approved before the Supreme Court review on April 2,' an official added.