546 factories, including 98 garments, textile units open
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A total of 546 factories, including 98 readymade garments and textile units, that are categorized as the jurisdiction of Industrial Police remained open until Tuesday amid coronavirus outbreak in the united states.
In line with the Industrial Police, there are some 7,602 professional units beneath the jurisdiction of the IP’s six zones: Ashulia in Dhaka, Gazipur, Chattogram, Narayanganj, Mymensingh and Khulna.
Out from the 7,602 units, 3,371 are readymade garments and textile factories and the others are non-RMG factories.
Two apparel trade bodies -Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association and Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association - on Monday in a statement recommended its members to keep the factories, except the ones that are generating personal protective equipment and urgent export items, up close to April 14 based on the government’s general holidays to slow coronavirus outbreak.
The trade bodies also requested its members to pay wages of March by April 16 with their workers.
Bangladesh Textile Mills Association on Monday also asked all its members to keep their units close till April 14.
Commerce minister Tipu Munshi on Tuesday in a statement urged the factory owners not to terminate workers during the closure of factories.
He also requested factory owners to pay their personnel by April 16.
The IP data showed that there have been 1,882 member factories of BGMEA in six zones and 54 of these were open until Tuesday.
Out of just one 1,101 factories registered with BKMEA, 10 remained open.
A complete of 388 factories are registered with the Bangladesh Textile Mills Association and 34 of these remained open until Tuesday, the info showed.
The IP data also showed that out of 364 factories beneath the Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority 363 units remained closed on Tuesday.
The rest 3,867 factories participate in other sectors and 447 of these remained open on your day.
BGMEA sources said that the members of the trade bodies started paying wages of March with their workers and the majority of the units can pay by April 15.
Meanwhile, BGMEA president Rubana Huq on Tuesday sought cooperation from banks so that small and medium factories could pay their personnel for the month of March.
In a letter to Bangladesh Bank governor Fazle Kabir, the BGMEA president requested to help ease the guidelines to finance small and medium RMG companies in order that they could pay their employees.
When asked, Rubana said that lots of of small and medium exporters were facing trouble as their shipment remained halted from March 15 as a result of coronavirus outbreak on the globe.
She said that RMG export declined by practically 30 % in March this year compared to that of same month of this past year as most of the buyers halted or cancelled orders.
Now if the banks don't allow over draft loan to the exporters many of small and medium companies will never be able to pay their employees, Rubana said.
Taking into consideration the situation the BGMEA president requested Bangladesh Bank to teach commercial banks to finance small and medium manufacturers easing the guidelines for OD.
Source: https://www.newagebd.net
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