Present Condition of Garment Factories in Bangladesh

The condition of the fire safety measures in Bangladeshi garments

The condition of the fire safety mesure in Bangladeshi garments is very poor that is beyond our imagination. Most of the garment factories do not pay the more attention on the safety measures of the workers against fire. They believe that it is very costly for them it shows that the value of the life of the Bangldeshi garment workers is not so high. That’s why they constantly pull out their attention from the fire safety measures. That’s why the fire incident event often break out to show us the devastation of fire and we often see the unnecessary deaths occur for the lack of fire safety measures.

Among them the devastating fire incident in the Tazneen fashion has drawn everyone’s attention to the inadequate fire safety measures of the Bangladeshi garments. It caused the death of 112 people that is the biggest of all time fire incident result. Hundreds of people have died. They have burnt alive which was really pathetic. This incident has brought a question among us “Are the garment workers really safe in the garments?” The question that everyone asking but no one answering.

The revelations about the deadliest garment fire in Bangladeshi history provide insight into the chaotic nature of safety enforcement at the country's more than 4,000 garment factories. The powerful garment industry is responsible for 80 per cent of the South Asian country's exports.

A Dhaka fire official said the Tazreen factory's fire safety certification had expired on June 30, and fire officials refused to renew it because the building did not have the proper safety arrangements.

More than half the garment factories have safety arrangements only on paper, but they are deemed untouchable, said Kalpona Akter, executive director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity, a labor rights group.

"These factories should be shut down, but who will do that? Any good government inspector who wants to act tough...