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Accord and Alliance not get time extension in Bangladesh

According to Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed, no extension will be granted to Accord and Alliance, two international bodies to monitor Bangladesh’s readymade garment factory conditions. Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of an international exhibition on building and fire safety at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka, he said that the country’s garment factories have undergone a transformation.

According to Ahmed, most of the garment factories now adhere with standards set for them and workers are working in a safe and job-friendly environment. He added that the calamities caused by fire at Tazreen Fashions and the Rana Plaza building collapse have created a wrong impression about Bangladesh in many importing countries.

Accord and Alliance have been allowed to carry out factory inspections in Bangladesh by July 2018. These two bodies were formed by international buyers of Bangladeshi garments with garment manufacturers to improve working conditions and safety standards. They began work in 2013 for a contract term of five years.

Alliance has so far inspected 587 factories and trained the workers employed by many of them. Accord has inspected 1,289 factories. The minister said that several countries do not allow such bodies to inspect factories. They are denied visa if they express their intention to inspect factories in those countries. “But in our country, we have Alliance and Accord. They are trying to have their terms extended. But that will not be allowed. They will not get even a day’s extension,” he asserted.

 
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