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Why this campaign against RMG entrepreneurs?

Saturday, 5 December 2009


There should be no grudge against the entrepreneurs in the garments sector for the life style they are enjoying after years of toil. Their toil is different form the workers. As entrepreneurs they had to take risks and face many difficulties. Their life style is not unearned like the bureaucrats' and politicians', many of whom own palatial houses and had posh life without doing anything. Like parasites they live off what others produce. Graft against misuse of power is the source of their wealth. But these people are not scolded at all. Why the garment industrialists should be condemned for what they have earned observing the rules and paying the taxes. Earning foreign currency that keeps the macro-economy in balance and employment generation cannot be a fault. So, I wonder about the mental equilibrium of those who heap all the blame on the industrialists in the readymade garments (RMG) sector.
And what is so unprincipled about such entrepreneurs in seeking assistance from the government to tide over the bad times? I can only ask, why charge them for this? Why did the government constitute the taka 50 billion fund to assist the recession-hit industries? Why then should garments industries be discriminated? Why is this uproar against the entrepreneurs in the RMG sector for asking for the rescue fund when they are going through the bad patch? In the USA, the government bailed out not only manufacturers but also the banks.

Tapan Kumar Bikash
Tipu Sultan Road, Dhaka