கலை மற்றும் சமூக அறிவியல் இதழ்

Social and Physical Problems of Readymade Garment Art Workers for Having Fire Accident in Bangladesh

Abstract

Sajedul Islam Khan and Afrina Khan

The ready-made garments (RMG) industry creates an important role to widen the socio-economic expansion of Bangladesh. In this paper, the focus is on the comprehensive understanding of the factors of committing fire related accidents in Bangladesh. Specifically, this paper attempts analyze the disability nature and psycho-social problems faced by women victim’s garments sectors of Bangladesh through an integrative perspective. The study is intended to explore financial suffering of victims during any accident in RMG sectors.The research has been conducted by using qualitative data collection methods. The main mode of inquiry used participant observation along with a variety of tools and techniques, such as in-depth interviews, informal conversation, key informant interviews, and listening to stories from the garment workers, injured, survived and members of bereaved families of the deceased garment workers. It reveals that the secret of the fire could not be discovered as most of the time the garments management and authority try to avoid the causes and reasons of fire occurring issues. In most of the accidents it is observed that only staffs and workers are burnt and succumbed to death but very few officers died or burnet. In other cases it is found that the death and partially disabled burned and victim’s staffs and their dependent families are neglected and some days later forgotten by the garments authority. The study also found that those victims who lost their family members, disabled members and the injured staffs receive insufficient support and financial compensation.