Children of Tazreen fire injured send open letters to PM
Skip to main content
  • Home
  • Economy
  • Stocks
  • Analysis
  • World+Biz
  • Sports
  • Splash
  • Features
  • Videos
  • Long Read
  • Games
  • Epaper
  • More
    • COVID-19
    • Bangladesh
    • Infograph
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Thoughts
    • Podcast
    • Quiz
    • Tech
    • Subscribe
    • Archive
    • Trial By Trivia
    • Magazine
    • Supplement
  • বাংলা
The Business Standard
TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2022
TUESDAY, MAY 17, 2022
  • Home
  • Economy
  • Stocks
  • Analysis
  • World+Biz
  • Sports
  • Splash
  • Features
  • Videos
  • Long Read
  • Games
  • Epaper
  • More
    • COVID-19
    • Bangladesh
    • Infograph
    • Interviews
    • Offbeat
    • Thoughts
    • Podcast
    • Quiz
    • Tech
    • Subscribe
    • Archive
    • Trial By Trivia
    • Magazine
    • Supplement
  • বাংলা
Children of Tazreen fire injured send open letters to PM

RMG

TBS Report
16 November, 2020, 07:55 pm
Last modified: 16 November, 2020, 08:26 pm

Related News

  • Sri Lanka leader names opponent as PM in push for unity
  • PM inaugurates 40 new fire stations
  • PM hailed for recognising ‘Joy Bangla’ as national slogan
  • PM asks govt officials to ensure services for people
  • Japan PM to call Ukraine leader over invasion fears: media

Children of Tazreen fire injured send open letters to PM

Children of the injured workers carried placards and stood in front of the National Press Club in the capital on Monday

TBS Report
16 November, 2020, 07:55 pm
Last modified: 16 November, 2020, 08:26 pm
Children of the injured workers carried placards and stood in front of the National Press Club in the capital on Monday. Photo: TBS
Children of the injured workers carried placards and stood in front of the National Press Club in the capital on Monday. Photo: TBS

Children on Monday joined a two-month-long sit-in programme and sent open letters to the Prime Minister, requesting her to arrange compensation for their parents who were injured in the in Tazreen Fashion fire eight years ago.

Children of the injured workers carried placards and stood in front of the National Press Club in the capital on Monday.

In her open letter, Sabina Yasmin, daughter of injured worker Zarina Akter, said, "We have been separated from our parents for almost two months now. We spend each day in panic. Our injured parents are standing in front of the Press Club in the sun and rain. They are sick. Instead of being treated in hospitals, they are spending days on the streets.

"We plead to the Prime minister to accept the list of three-point demands, including early compensation, and return our family to us. We cannot eat properly because we have had no income for ages. We are in crisis without our parents."

Children of the injured workers carried placards and stood in front of the National Press Club in the capital on Monday.
Children of the injured workers carried placards and stood in front of the National Press Club in the capital on Monday.

Abdul Quader Nahid, son of garment worker Nasima Begum, who took part in the sit-in, said in an open letter, "My mother was injured in that terrible fire. She hasn't been able to work since then. Though I study with my younger siblings, we're unable to study properly due to lack of income. We can't even eat properly."

"We are upset without my mother, so please accept her demands and let her come back home. Please make arrangements so I can take my mother home."

The injured workers, who also took part in the sit-in, said they had been protesting in front of the Press Club for the past two months with a list of only three demands. The authorities had still not taken any action.

Injured Zarina Akter posed the questions, "What sort of a future lies in store for our children? Why do our children suffer from insecurities today? Why should they take to the streets to realize the most basic, logical demands?" She also demanded that those "responsible for the fire" be given exemplary punishment.

Injured and/or unemployed workers (as a result of the Tazreen Fashion fire) have been staging the sit-in since September 18 to press home their list of three demands.

Their three demands are as follows: provide compensation to injured workers, including instituting an amendment to a section of the compensation law; provide dignified and practical rehabilitation to all injured workers, and provide long-term medical treatment to the injured.

It is worth noting that 114 workers lost their lives and more than 300 workers were injured in a fire on 24 November 2012 at Tazreen Fashion in Ashulia on the outskirts of the capital.

Bangladesh / Economy / Top News

Tazreen fire / PM

Comments

While most comments will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive, moderation decisions are subjective. Published comments are readers’ own views and The Business Standard does not endorse any of the readers’ comments.

Top Stories

  • Illustration: TBS
    How Putin revived Nato
  • Are banks only gainers from dollar crisis?
    Are banks only gainers from dollar crisis?
  • Urban areas are already emerging as the new poverty frontier. Photo: Mumit M/TBS
    TCB truck sales apparently draw to a close

MOST VIEWED

  • File Photo/TBS
    Garment exporters fear drop in order amid global inflation
  • Illustration: TBS
    Focus now on branding Bangladesh RMG sector
  • Two-day denim expo draws huge visitors
    Two-day denim expo draws huge visitors
  • File Photo : Mumit M/TBS
    Bangladesh can target $100b RMG exports in 10 years: Buyers
  • Faruque Hassan. Illustration: TBS
    We’re still struggling with price: BGMEA president
  • File Photo
    Denim expo that has taken apparel industry to a new height

Related News

  • Sri Lanka leader names opponent as PM in push for unity
  • PM inaugurates 40 new fire stations
  • PM hailed for recognising ‘Joy Bangla’ as national slogan
  • PM asks govt officials to ensure services for people
  • Japan PM to call Ukraine leader over invasion fears: media

Features

Despite Bangladesh having about 24,000 km of waterways, only a few hundred kilometres are covered by commercial launch services. Photo: Saad Abdullah

Utilising waterways: When common home-goers show the way

1h | Panorama
Illustration: TBS

How Putin revived Nato

3h | Panorama
The reception is a volumetric box-shaped room that has two glass walls on both the front and back ends and the other two walls are adorned with interior plants, wood and aluminium screens. Photo: Noor-A-Alam

The United House: Living and working inside nature

3h | Habitat
Pcycle team members at a waste management orientation event. Photo: Courtesy

Pcycle: Turning waste from bins into beautiful crafts

4h | Panorama

More Videos from TBS

Can your coworker be your closest friend?

Can your coworker be your closest friend?

4h | Videos
The mystery behind Pyramid

The mystery behind Pyramid

4h | Videos
Finland, Sweden decide to join NATO

Finland, Sweden decide to join NATO

16h | Videos
Where you can swim for Tk5

Where you can swim for Tk5

18h | Videos

Most Read

1
Representative Photo: Pixabay.
Bangladesh

Microplastics found in 5 local sugar brands

2
Mushfiq Mobarak. Photo: Noor-A-Alam
Panorama

Meet the Yale professor who anchors his research in Bangladesh and scales up interventions globally

3
Impact of falling taka against US dollar
Banking

Taka losing more value as global currency market volatility persists

4
Govt tightens belt to relieve reserve
Economy

Govt tightens belt to relieve reserve

5
Union Capital asked to return Tk100cr FDR to BATBC 
Banking

Union Capital asked to return Tk100cr FDR to BATBC 

6
How Bangladesh can achieve edible oil self-sufficiency with local alternatives
Bazaar

How Bangladesh can achieve edible oil self-sufficiency with local alternatives

The Business Standard
Top
  • Home
  • Entertainment
  • Sports
  • About Us
  • Bangladesh
  • International
  • Privacy Policy
  • Comment Policy
  • Contact Us
  • Economy
  • Sitemap
  • RSS

Contact Us

The Business Standard

Main Office -4/A, Eskaton Garden, Dhaka- 1000

Phone: +8801847 416158 - 59

Send Opinion articles to - oped.tbs@gmail.com

For advertisement- sales@tbsnews.net

Copyright © 2022 THE BUSINESS STANDARD All rights reserved. Technical Partner: RSI Lab