Ship breaking industry
A strong move is on against the ship breaking industry to remove this market from Bangladesh to other countries. Some NGOs are trying to protect the rights of workers and save the environment from bad effects of ship breaking. We support them. But we can not lose the huge prospect in the name of serving workers and the environment. We have to be more flexible for this industry. More than 250,000 people are engaged in this sector directly or indirectly. Every year the government earns a good income from it. It saves a huge amount of foreign currency by reducing import of steel and raw material. It provides 80% of the iron used by the steel factories.
As a developing country, it's so much lucrative for us. That's why we have to nurture it.
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