Workers' organisation demands specific compensations
Leaders of National Garment Workers Federation yesterday demanded that the families of workers killed in Rana Plaza tragedy should be given Tk 28 lakh each for their “loss of earning” while the injured workers should get Tk 5 lakh each.
Most families of the dead have not received any forms of necessary assistance let alone proper compensation, they added.
They said these while distributing sari, rice, sugar and vermicelli to 111 affected people of Rana Plaza tragedy, outside the office of Workers' Party of Bangladesh in the capital.
The party President Rashed Khan Menon said the assistance provided from the prime minister's fund as well as the the contributions made by different organisations were not enough.
He said the 30 buyers, who used to purchase clothes from the five garment industries housed at Rana Plaza, BGMEA, and the government should take steps to compensate the affected workers immediately.
At least 1,132 people were killed and 2,438 injured in Rana Plaza collapse in Savar on April 24.
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