Cabinet okays draft textile law

Cabinet okays draft textile law

The cabinet on Monday gave its final approval to the draft of “The Textile Law, 2018” considering importance of huge apparel exports from Bangladesh, reports BSS. The approval was given at the weekly cabinet meeting held at the Prime Minister’s Office with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. Briefing reporters at Bangladesh Secretariat, Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam said the aim of the newly proposed law is to maintain quality of textile products as Bangladesh is earning huge foreign currency from this sector.

About 83 percent of the country’s total export earnings came from the textile sector last year, he said, adding that apparel products worth over 29.26 billion dollars were exported in the last fiscal. As per Section 6 of the draft law, Alam said, the government could provide incentive for any textile industry to achieve the goal of enacting the law.

The cupboard secretary stated a directorate would be constituted with the Director General as its head to be appointed with the aid of the government, while essential manpower will additionally be recruited for the organisation.

“The DG will work as the registrar of the organisation,” he added. Alam stated an officer will be given duty to look at first-class and widespread of more than a few factors together with paint and other chemical substances used in the material products. In this regard, he said the authorities can set up international preferred laboratory to accomplish such activities.

About provision of punishment, the cupboard secretary said registration of any enterprise could be suspended or even cancelled for giving wrong or false facts while taking the registration. He stated if needed, the authorities can decide the registration system of the shopping for houses, giving registration certificate, suspension of registration, its renewal and other matters with the aid of issuing gazette notification. The cabinet secretary said the responsible individual ought to look into any cloth industry in the machine fixed by regulations whether or not the industry is run as per the condition of registration.

The man or woman additionally may want to ship the statistics he obtained to the government with recommendations, he said. Alam said any aggrieved character should hotel an attraction with the authorities within 30 days. The cupboard secretary said the authorities or the directorate ought to hand over any energy as per the prerequisites to be fixed in the order to any person, reliable and or organisation.