Salman F. Rahman, the adviser to the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on private industries and investment, has underlined that the Government was planning inspection and remediation platforms like Accord and Alliance to strengthen workplace safety in industrial units and provide long-term financing to the industries to enable them become compliant, adding non-complaint factories would not be able to sell their products.
Media reports maintained this adding that Salman F. Rahman came up with this observation while addressing a webinar on ‘Reviving the leather sector in the aftermath of Covid 19’, organised jointly by Economic Reporters Forum (ERF), The Asia Foundation (TAF) and RAPID.
The PM’s Private Sector Industry and Investment Adviser, reportedly, also maintained that despite having a wrong design, the central effluent treatment plant (CETP) at the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate (STIE) was somewhat operational now even as he hinted at a Balancing Modernisation Rehabilitation and Expansion under public-private partnership and said the BUET-Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology was involved in improving the CETP but it let the CETP and the country down.
Also speaking on the occasion, Chairman of Apex Footwear Syed Manzur Elahi underlined the need to form a powerful taskforce to address leather sector’s challenges even as he added that lot of discussions and seminars have been held, over many years, on the development of the leather sector and CETP, but still very little has been done.
