Scrap BJMC
Recently, the Finance Minister AMA Muhith opined that the Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation should be scrapped. BJMC has been incurring heavy financial loss since its inception. Successive governments have poured in huge sums of money to compensate for the loss of the industry.
Many workers who spent their lives working in this industry and have now grown old are yet to receive service benefits. I am one of them.
I resigned from a jute mill in 1992, having realised that its future was gloomy. I haven’t received my service benefits as of yet. Had I not resigned at that time, my life would probably have been miserable. I, therefore, agree with the finance minister that the government should scrap the BJMC.
Md Ashraf Hossain
By emaile
