Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said her government will take steps to open the closed jute mills and update the labor laws in accordance with the ILO convention for a sound growth of the country's industrial sector. Sheikh Hasina announced the plan while addressing the leaders and workers of Bangladesh Sramik League at her official residence Jamuna yesterday..
The government is planning to lease out 12 of the state-run jute and textile industries, including some closed ones, to private entrepreneurs for resumption of production or better functioning.
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I am from the same locality where jute mill tragedy is taking place for last 8 years. All of my neighbours, friends, and few of my relatives are in this way or that way connected to jute mills. Though my family is not related to jute mills, I have touching memories about it. Few years back, two of our tenants flee away at night , as they just were unable to pay rents. They were good people, we don't curse them for some amount of money. I saw people, whom I know for my childhood, in local market to just hoovering around fishes, they can't buy. I remember that they were the big buyers just few years before.
