Why crack down on workers who are demanding their dues?

But more needs to be done achieve real sustainability  

Only two decades ago, people bathed in the Hyderabad canal in Tongi, Gazipur.

After the fateful Rana Plaza disaster on April 24, 2013, a legally binding agreement between European buyers, retailers, and labour unions was signed to maintain structural safety and safe working environment in Bangladeshi RMG factories which is now known as

Police recover ed the body of a readymade garment worker at his factory in Ashulia of Savar, outskirts of Dhaka.

Bangladesh's manufacturing sector has grown steadily as the country has industrialised. Manufacturing now accounts for 30 percent of GDP, nearly double the share of agriculture.

Bangladesh can create millions of jobs for garment workers through improving the productivity and social and environmental compliance, according to a new study by the World Bank (WB).

Transparency International Bangladesh has lauded the improvement of the safety standard at ready-made garment industries and termed the development “revolutionary”.