Majority of the readymade garment workers are out of the formal banking system and deprived of wage digitisation due to payment of their wages in cash, said speakers at a discussion on Thursday.

Labour leaders say unions need to be independent of foreign funding and NGOs and must unite to fight for their rights

Although safety is a higher priority five years on from the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh that killed 1,135 garment workers, dangerous conditions persist in smaller factories, campaigners said.

Bangladesh is still a lucrative destination for sourcing low-cost garment items, coming second to only China, according to the Global Sourcing Survey-2018 by the AsiaInspection, which provides inspection services to global brands.

On this day five years ago, Rana Plaza collapsed, and with it went 1,138 lives and irrevocably changed those of thousands others.

A survey conducted by Action Aid Bangladesh has found that around half of the Rana Plaza survivors have been left unable to work.

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Aimed at doubling value addition from $1 billion per million bales to $2 billion per million bales during five years and double textile exports from $13.1 billion to $26 billion, besides facilitating investment of additional $5 billion in machinery and technology, the textile policy 2014-19 has remained fail to achieve desired targets.