Meanwhile on December 12, 2011, Dutch-Bangla Bank Ltd inked MoU with BKMEA for sponsoring the 6th Knit Exposition. BKMEA President AKM Salim Osman and Dutch-Bangla Bank Ltd Managing Director K. Shamsi Tabrez signed the agreement on behalf of their respective sides. BKMEA acknowledges the inimitable activities that are done for promoting business and social causes of Bangladesh. BKMEA looks forward to sharing every achievement with Dutch-Bangla Bank Ltd in the coming days.
Among others BKMEA Vice President (Finance) AH Aslam Sunny and high officials from Dutch-Bangla Bank Ltd were also present at the MoU signing ceremony.

BKMEA has ensured mandatory Group Life Insurance for all its member units. Member factories are getting the insurance claims for accidental or normal death, permanent disability of its workers or employees. BKMEA is committed to paying the insurance claim to the family members of victim’s family at the shortest possible time. As part of its ongoing activities to the end, on November 10, 2010 BKMEA organized a program to hand over Bima Cheques among the close relatives of deceased workers. As of now, BKMEA processed and handed over the cheques of 253 insurance claims.

BKMEA, BGMEA & BTMA meet with Finance Minister about Second Special incentive package and getting cash incentive against TT

To sustain in the competitive global market, we have to come up with quality products to win the race and here the skilled force can play a pivotal role in increasing in productivity. So the urgency for skilled workforce has always received a special consideration. Lack of skilled labor force has always been the major obstacle to the development of RMG sector in Bangladesh. In order to address this scarcity, BKMEA is has already established a well-equipped training institute at Narayanganj. We hope to start its activities by January 2012. The state of the art Training Centre is designed to provide all facilities available at an advanced institute along with expert faculty members.

It could not be compensated with any available word that best describes the most gracious posture that the people of Japan and its government rendered to us by declaring the rules of origin to two stage to avail Japanese GSP for Bangladesh knitwear sector. We will certainly remember their generosity with utmost gratitude and reverence. The phenomenal support that we received during our tours to Japan from Japan Embassy in Bangladesh and Bangladesh embassy in Japan has been instrumental in pursuing our case in Japan. We also highly acknowledge the continuous supports from Bangladesh Government notably from Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and German Development Cooperation (GIZ) in our entire efforts to the end. All hard work finally culminated in the ultimate achievement the relaxed rules of origin to avail Japanese GSP for Bangladesh knitwear products.

We can reach the furthest and we can easily bag the success as we are guided by immense agility and flamboyance of quality products. The claim was manifested once again following the declaration by Japan government for the relaxation of existing rules of origin.

On December 09, 2010 an IMF team led by its deputy division chief in the Asia and pacific Department, David Cowen visited BKMEA. BKMEA 1st Vice President Alhaj Habibur Rahman led the BKMEA team in the meeting. Praising the blistering growth of Bangladesh RMG Sector Mr. Cowen inquired about the overall economic scenario in Bangladesh. In the light of the present condition in the RMG sector he exchange views about the constraints and the prospects of the sector. In his brief, BKMEA 1st Vice President informed him about the challenges and activities that BKMEA undertakes on a regular basis for maintaining the growth rate of the sector.

On April 26, 2011, Global Works Foundation President Ms. Bama Atthreya the Global Works Foundation, a Washington DC-based nonprofit organization visited BKMEA as part of its global efforts to promote policies and programs to end poverty worldwide.

It is worthy to mention here that Global Works policy initiative, TASC builds new alliances and partners with antipoverty NGOs, think tanks, international organizations, unions, businesses and others to develop and support actionable policies and programs to gight poverty, including in the areas like capacity building, foreign assistance and trade preference programs for the world’s poorest and most fragile countries; women and development, including capacity building support for women in development countries and connecting women entrepreneurs to the global market; food security; and climate adaptation.

TASC programs regularly involve officials of the US government and other governments. In the meeting, Ms. Athreya showed her keen interest to get a comprehensive idea about the real plight of workers in the RMG sector. BKMEA 1st Vice President Alhaj Habibur Rahman represented and briefed her in the meeting. The meeting with Global Works Foundation with some prominent lawmakers in the US government. Among others, Mr. Shabbir Ahmed Chowdhury from US Bangladesh Advisory Council was present in the meeting.