After Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, a platform of European retailers, and Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety, a consortium of North American buyers, accused Bangladeshi factories of no progress on remediation work, the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has decided to personally look into the matter.

Accord has stopped work with almost eight garment factories for their failure to meet the conditions of remediation in time and it has also warned over 120 factories of cutting business ties over slow progress in corrective action plan. Even Alliance has cut relations with 23 factories from its supplier list and warned 12 more for the same reasons. Now the BGMEA started collecting information from its member factories regarding factory inspection and remediation progress.

It has created a format for updating inspection status. Around 46 factories have already provided their inspection status. Once BGMEA receives status from all the factories in question, it would compare them with that of the Accord and Alliance to appear at a conclusion and find a way out.

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