Textile & Garments

The initiative seeks to help the overall economic recovery in Bangladesh by systematic assessment, the impact on the private sector and develop recovery strategies from the Covid-19 pandemic

Jute workers at state-run mills in Khulna staying away from work Monday

Owners are yet to complete the process to receive loan from the stimulus package

Bangladesh has sought a two-year duty-free access for its readymade garment products to the US market as the coronavirus pandemic put the major export-earning sector in trouble amid cancellations of global orders.

As the coronavirus sweeps across the globe, one if its aftermaths is being felt in Bangladesh’s readymade garments sector, the largest foreign currency earner in the country.

At several points, they blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway Workers of at least five apparel factories on Wednesday protested to demand their due wages and express their worries over a lack of safety measures and more at Mouchak, Kunia, Board Bazar and Signboard areas of Gazipur.

Two apparel sector trade bodies — BGMEA and BKMEA — are discouraging their members from paying their workers full wages for the period of closure in April and have asked them to comply with the government decision of paying 60 per cent of their wages.

Around 2,200 clothing factories have applied for bank credits worth nearly Tk 31.5 billion from the government’s coronavirus bailout funds to pay workers.

Bangladesh’s biggest wholesale clothing market at Baburhat, Narsingdi has reopened prior to the Eid-ul-Fit with some curbs amid the nationwide lockdown designed to limit the coronavirus spread.

Conducting health and safety audit in the last four days, Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has so far found 144 factories in satisfactory level amid the concern of deadly COVID-19 pandemic in the country.