Bangladesh Garments Sr-amik Karmachari Oikya Parishad in a rally on Friday decided that it would go for greater movement to realise their five-point demand submitted earlier to the Acting President.

The parishad would form factory committee in all the garments industries throughout the city. It has also decided to conduct a campaign fortnight from Friday. It would bring out posters and leaflets in favour of their five-point demand during the period.

The Oikya Parishad. formed after the fire incident in a garments factory in Mirpur last month, lamented that the neither the Government nor the garment factory owners had paid any heed to their demands.

Ihc five -point demand Includes enforcing different factory and labour laws, fixing a lowest salary of 1400 Taka, giving the workers some allowances.

Mr Meher All, General Secretary of the parishad, addressed the rally and said the workers arc the main force behind the country's nourishing industry. But they had been deprived of their legal rights.

Mr Abu) Hossain, President of the parishad, said the owners arc exploiting the workers by paying them poor salary and denying other facilities. He said such exploitation would । ultimately kill the industry.

Workers' representatives from different garments factory addressed The rally.