Jute mill workers start receiving dues

The government has started disbursing due payments of retired and sacked workers of closed state-owned jute mills on Tuesday.

Golam Dastagir Gazi, minister for the Ministry of Textiles and Jute, formally inaugurated the payment of due wages of the workers at Karim Jute Mills at Demra, Dhaka.

The workers have been paid wages through cash payments and savings certificates, according to a press release issued by the jute ministry on Tuesday.

The jute minister launched the wage payment programme by handing over savings certificates to some 30 workers.

The government will pay Tk 2.51 billion to the workers of Karim Jute Mills. The number of sacked workers is 1,759, retired workers 612 and temporary workers 2,625 in that mill.

The minister said workers from rest of the mills will get their dues gradually.

About Tk 50 billion will be paid as wages and other benefits to the workers of all 25 closed jute mills under Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation, he mentioned.

Fifty per cent of the wages and benefits will be paid as cash and 50 per cent through three-monthly profit bearing savings certificates by this fiscal year, he added.

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