KEY PROBLEMS IN RMG SECTOR

 1.WORKERS SAFETY ISSUE: One of the biggest challenges currently facing our garment industry is to make our factories safer and ensure better working conditions for millions of garment workers. The Tazreen fire and Rana Plaza collapse have brought the issue of workplace safety to the fore.

2.TO ENSURE WORKERS' RIGHTS: Another challenge for our RMG industry is to ensure workers' rights.Timely salary,  the right to equal pay for equal work,Giving All type of facility  which are essential for all workers and so on.

3.SHORTAGE OF SKILLED WORKFORCE: we have a shortage of skilled workforce, especially at mid-management level, as we do not have sufficient number of vocational institutes and textile universities though our industry has started its journey in the early 1980s.Gratdues has also lack of technical knowledge. 

4.US-CHINA TRADE WAR:The trade war is contributing to price volatility in the cotton market, which is a key raw material for the apparel sector. China’s stockpiling and procurement of cotton from regional cotton producers like Uzbekistan and India, instead of US, will cause a mismatch in the demand-supply scenario. Bangladeshi textile manufacturers may suffer, as a result.

5.SUB CONTRACT ISSUE: A third party contract, becomes essential whenever there is an overflow of work orders in any factory. It also helps maintain shorter lead times set by international apparel buyers.Now subcontracting is rarely allowed in garment factories because of the poor compliance records of the small units.

6.SHORTAGE OF POWER SUPPLY: The huge expansion of the garment industry has reinforced the need for development of infrastructure, which is quite a big challenge for us. Ensuring energy and power supply to the industry has also appeared as a major challenge.

7.DECREASE ORDER RATES IN GARMENTS: Some country like Vietnam,turkey,combodia are developing rapidly in RMG sector.So a good amount of order also gone to them also.Our CSR activity,environment condition of industry  also not attracting the byers.  

8.ELEVATION TO MIDDLE-INCOME STATUS: The European Union, which is the destination for 50% of country’s apparel export, has been providing GSP facility (since Bangladesh is an LDC) enabling tariff and quota free entry for all products. Revoking GSP would be catastrophic for the sector, as the apparel sector would immediately lose cost competitiveness.

9.FORIGN DEGREE PIRIOTY: Most of all the higher position post in rmg sector job are under foreignrs.So a large amount of money is going in other country to give them a high salary.  

10.PRODUCTION PLANNING: Production planning and control department of a garment manufacturing unit is responsible for the timely shipment.

11.MINIMUM WAGE RATE HIKE: Based on the recent tripartite negotiations between the Government, BGMEA and RMG worker trade unions, the minimum wage rate has been revised upward to BDT 8,000, effective from Dec 2018. The expected 50% jump in salary costs would negatively impact the sector’s cost competitiveness.

12.SHIPMENT PROBLEM: Bangladesh has no mother port.Air plane shipment cost is so expensive.And need a lot time for shipment in sea way.

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