Sylhet Bureau :
Dressmakers of different tailoring shops are idling away time in the Sylhet district for no noticeable number of orders placed, while only a few days are left for the Eid- ul-fitr.
Before Covid-19 every year in the same period it had traditionally been found that tailoring houses were bustling with huge work orders, keeping the sewing staff busy for around 18 hours a day.
But the situation this year has gone into reverse when the sewing workers are supposed to remain busy.
A sewing worker named Suma Akhtar (25) of Lalabazar under Dakshin Surma upazila said, “I have got to pay Tk1, 200 every week to a local NGO. But there is not enough income.”
Ahmed Ali of Moduban Market, Proprietor of Sotorupa Tailoring, said, “While we have stop taking away sewing orders from customers after third week of Ramadan this year we are waiting eagerly for work orders but the number of customers is very low.
During Eid before the coronavirus breakout he had five sewing workers but in the current year only three people are working in his shop, though with very small number of orders.
