Readymade Garment (Export)

The ready-made garment (RMG) sector is the lifeblood for the Bangladeshi economy and acts as a catalyst for the development of Bangladesh. The “Made in Bangladesh” tag has also brought glory to the country, making it a prestigious brand across the globe. Maintaining higher export growth every year, now the sector is the largest contributor to overseas trade and the national economy. The sector alone directly employs nearly 4 million skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled workers. Indirectly, the garment sector, which started its journey in Bangladesh in the early 1980s, employs a few crores of people in the country. Bangladesh’s position as the world’s second-largest readymade garment exporter continues to hold strong. The sector accounts for 83% of the country’s total export earnings. In 2020, the export value of ready-made garments (RMG) in Bangladesh amounted to approximately 27.95 billion U.S. dollars. In the garment sector, the majority of the workers are women and most of them come from rural areas and 90% of them are illiterate. In the garment working place, the workers are facing so many problems. Out of them, the main problems