The Bangladesh Jatiyatavadi Sramik Dal has demanded that 25 jute mills in the country, including Khulna, under the jurisdiction of Bangladesh Jute Mill Corporation (BJMC) should resume production and pay Tk 110 crore dues to the workers of five jute mills. This demand was announced at a press conference organized at Khulna Press Club at 12 noon on Tuesday.
The closed mills are Alim Jute Mills Limited, Crescent Jute Mills Limited, Daulatpur Jute Mills, Eastern Jute Mills Limited, Khalishpur Jute Mills Limited, Platinum Jubilee Jute Mills Limited, Star Jute Mills Limited, Carpeting Jute Mills Limited, Jessore Jute. Industries Limited, Bangladesh Jute Mills Limited of Narsingdi, Jatiya (formerly Qawmi) Jute Mills Limited of Sirajganj, Karim Jute Mills Limited of Dhaka, Latif Bawani Jute Mills Limited, Rajshahi Jute Mills Limited of Rajshahi, four jute mills of Narsingdi merged into UMC Jute Mills Limited, Juto of Narayanganj. Fiber Glass Industries Limited, Chittagong two mills merged with Amin Jute Mills Limited, Bagdad-Dhaka Carpet Factory Limited,
Galfra Habib Limited, Gul Ahmad Jute Mills Limited, Hafiz Jute Mills Limited, KFD Limited, MM Jute Mills Limited, RR Jute Mills Limited and Mills Furnishing Limited.
In a press conference, convenor of Khalishpur Industrial Area of ​​Labor Party, Abu Dawood Deen Mohammad said that the previous government hastily closed the jute mills in 2020. Apart from this, the workers of Khalishpur Jute Mills Limited, Daulatpur Jute Mills Limited, Jatiya Jute Mills Limited, Karnaphuli Jute Mills Limited and Forat Karnaphuli Jute Mills Limited have 110 crores of Tk. They were sent away without paying this money. He demanded from the interim government to pay the dues of the workers and reopen the 25 mills that were closed.
Khulna Metropolitan BNP convener Advocate SM Shafiqul Alam Mana, Member Secretary Shafiqul Alam Tuhin, Central Labor Party Leader Abul Kalam Zia, Khulna Metropolitan Labor Party Convenor Mojibur Rahman, Member Secretary Shafiqul Islam Shafi, Md. Alamgir Talukdar and others.
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