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Hasina urges BGMEA delegation

Take initiative to set up backward linkage industries
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged a BGMEA team to lake initiative for setting up of backward linkage industries for the garments sector, report agencies
She made the request while a 16-member delegation of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association. led by Anisur Rahman Sinha, met her yesterday at the Prime Minister s office.
During the meeting, the dele gallon raised various problems lacing the garment's sector. The delegation members said that last year Bangladesh had earned billions of dollars from garments exports which is 66 per cent of the country's total export earnings. They said that about 12 lakh people are working in the sector.
The Prime Minster gave them a patient hearing and assured all possible help for the development of the garments industries.
Talking to a 16-member delegation of the newly elected executive committee of BGMEA at her office, the Prime Minister said the government will assist the entrepreneurs in setting up backward linkage industries.
Sinha urged the Prime Minister to look into the problems of the factories affected in last few years. The BGMEA leader demanded steps for sur vival of the sector in the com-
petitive international market.
He also called for making earnings from garments export tax free and constituting an Apparel Board for taking instant decision and implementing it quickly.
The BGMEA delegation de manded the same facilities for the export oriented garments
units outside EPZ as those inside it.
It also demanded reintroduction of the export performance benefit for the exports and back up support for setting backe-ward linkage industries.
The Prime Minister said the government is very much aware of the problems of the sector
and is giving quick decision for immediate solution of the problems.
She said steps are being taken to generate power in the private sector for the solution of energy problem. " We hope that within a year we will be able to solve the energy crisis of the country." she said.