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She said, newly constituted wage board for wage hike of the garment workers is working. "We hope that the board would give its recommendation soon. Then we will take final decision about the amount of wage hike," she added. The Prime Minister said a vested quarter is out to create obstacle on development of women. In many pleas they want to disrupt the progress of the garment sector. The government, workers and owners of the industries should remain united to foil their evil design and enhance productivity.
She said, the Awami League government in its first spell in 1996, made the provision of stairs compulsory in all garment factories. The factories have build up their own firefighting capacity. Side by side, the Fire Service and Civil Defense has been strengthened across the country with many new and modern acquisitions. The Prime Minister paid her rich tributes to the garments workers died in many fire and building collapse incidents across the country and extended her sympathy to the injured workers and prayed for their early recovery.
The Prime Minister said the government has taken initiative for construction of garment village and works of construction of the garments economic zone at Baoshiya in Munshiganj has already been started. "The plots would be handed over to the entrepreneurs in phases," she said. Sheikh Hasina said, the government has waived 15 percent VAT on use of floor space for garment industries. Duty-free import of ETP machinery was permitted to check environment pollution. "All duty and taxes more than three percent on import of the chemicals of ETP were waived," she added.
Minister for Textiles and Jute Abdul Latif Siddiqui, LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam, Commerce Minister Ghulam Mohammad Qader, Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Faruk Khan, Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan attended the function as the special guests at Pan Pacific Sonargaon hotel premises. BGMEA president and chairman of Batexpo organizing committee Atiqul Islam, second vice president of BGMEA MA Mannan Kochi and acting first vice president of BGMEA Abdul Wahab, spoke, among others, on the occasion.
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