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December 8, 2000
Dhaka--(UNB)- Representatives of the weavers associations have alleged that traders of weaving products are depriving them of genuine price and the consumers as well by selling at high price. They have raised a number of demands for protecting the interest of some 5 lakh handloom factories that employed about 15 lakh weavers across the country. The demands were voiced at a press conference yesterday by Mohammad Asadullah, president of Bangladesh Jatiya Tanti Samity and Sadhona Das Gupta, Chairman of Bangladesh Jatiya Samobay Shilpa Samity, which have jointly organized a month long textile fair at Shishu Academy. Asadullah informed newsmen at the Shishu Academy that Bangladeshi weavers are meeting about 63 percent requirement of the country’s textile products. Still today Bangladesh is the only country in the world where weavers are producing quality Jamdani saree that has demand also across the border, he added. The weavers leader demanded of the government to reduce import duty on raw materials of Zamdani saree, provide soft loans to weavers and set up a handloom export promotion council. Sadhana Das Gupta said the textile fair has been organized at Shisu academy to inform people about the fair price of handloom clothes as well as draw attention of foreign buyers to promote marketing in other countries. She said the saree that sells at Tk 300 in the fair is usually sold in the market at minimum Tk 400. Replying to a question, Gupta branded BRAC and Grameen a kind of middlemen who are depriving weavers of their real wage. Everything is done by the weavers but NGOs use to enjoy the cream by selling the handloom products at exorbitant price. Praising the quality of Bangladeshi tanter (weaving) saree Gupta said those are more attractive and durable than the Indians. She denounced as mushroom the textile fairs held in the capital. Those do not represent and protect the interest of the weavers. |