Underlining that workers’ nutrition safety will have to be prioritised for the implementation of the Government’s Vision 2021 and 2041 while also achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs), experts maintained that many workers of different industries in the country (Bangladesh) are victims of malnutrition, due to which their productivity rate is likely to fall by up to 20 per cent.

Media reports maintained this while adding that attending a partnership agreement signing ceremony between Switzerland-based Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and the Department of Labour, speakers made this observation even as the portfolio lead of GAIN Bangladesh, Moniruzzaman Bipul, on his part stated that only anaemia, which is caused by iron deficiency, is behind reduction of productivity worth US $ 500 crore in South Asia even as he added that ensuring necessary nutrition to the workers may increase their productivity rate by up to 20 per cent.

GAIN Bangladesh and the Department of Labour, as such, have joined hands to work jointly to improve the nutritional status of workers as part of the project titled SWAPNO.