PM outlines plan for garment village

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said the government seeks to set up a planned garment village to provide better and secured work place for the RMG workers. She said this when President of the International Trade Union Confederation and Chairman of the German Confederation of Trade Unions Michael Sommer called on her at her Parliament office. PM’s special assistance Mahbubul Hoque Shakil, who was present during the call on, briefed the reporters about the meeting. The Prime Minister told Sommer that in all countries across the globe the first initiative started in unplanned way, but later it took concrete shape through some planned measurers. Talking about the garment sector of the country she said that to uplift the fate of the RMG workers the government is making sincere efforts, according to a news agency.