{"title":"Comparative analysis in RMG industries before and after Rana Plaza incident in Bangladesh","authors":"Dulal Hosen","doi":"10.15406/jteft.2019.05.00203","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Ready Made Garments (RMG) is the top order Export oriented remittance earning sector of Bangladesh since 1987. Bangladeshi Garments industry has a tremendous past. But in recent time one tragedy has found in apparel sector. Rana Plaza, an eight-story commercial building, collapsed on 24 April 2013, in Savar. The official death toll of the accident is 1,129 and approximately 2,500 injured people were rescued from the building alive. This catastrophe determined a turning point for Bangladeshi RMGs: After this disaster in apparel sector, government took some steps for improving the working condition, health & safety, labor right, wages of garments worker of Bangladesh. This study focuses the overall scenario of before & after Rana Plaza collapsed.","PeriodicalId":17152,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Textile Engineering & Fashion Technology","volume":"os16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Textile Engineering & Fashion Technology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.15406/jteft.2019.05.00203","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Ready Made Garments (RMG) is the top order Export oriented remittance earning sector of Bangladesh since 1987. Bangladeshi Garments industry has a tremendous past. But in recent time one tragedy has found in apparel sector. Rana Plaza, an eight-story commercial building, collapsed on 24 April 2013, in Savar. The official death toll of the accident is 1,129 and approximately 2,500 injured people were rescued from the building alive. This catastrophe determined a turning point for Bangladeshi RMGs: After this disaster in apparel sector, government took some steps for improving the working condition, health & safety, labor right, wages of garments worker of Bangladesh. This study focuses the overall scenario of before & after Rana Plaza collapsed.