BGMEA to seek one more year

Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association is preparing to document an appeal to with the Supreme Court looking for one more year for moving its office working from Hatirjheel region of Dhaka. 

Conversing with the every day sun on Saturday, BGMEA Vice-president (Finance) Mohammed Nasir stated, "We advised our legal advisors to prepare for presenting a request of looking for one year time expansion for migrating office building". 

BGMEA legal advisor Barrister Imtiaz Moinul Islam told the day by day sun, "We are getting readied for presenting the request of for one year augmentation by April 1-2." 

"There are a few updates we need to educate the Supreme Court that the BGMEA new office building development is under process," he included. 

He said they engaged the applicable branch of the Appellate Division on March 5 for an expansion of one year and at a similar date they likewise made it out of rundown. 

Their present expansion will be end on April 11, he said. 

Sources said the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) has allotted a land in Sector 13 of Uttara in Dhaka for building the BGMEA office complex. Yet, BGMEA needs more one year time for migrating its 15-story working from Hatirjheel zone. 

The BGMEA has made a store for developing its new office-building and the development work is going on. 

On October 8, 2017, the court gave seven-month time to BGMEA from September 12, which implies a half year and four days are left for the migration since that day. 

The court, in its request, stated: "This is the last shot. 

No additional time will be conceded [to BGMEA in this regard]." 

On March 5 a year ago, the Appellate Division dismissed the survey request of for the decision on annihilation of the undertaking. 

Around then, the BGMEA specialists had advanced for a time of three years. At that point, on March 12 of that year, the Appellate Division dismissed the interest and gave them half year time. 

Prior, on April 3, 2011, the High Court requested the BGMEA to continue with destruction work. Afterward, the BGMEA experts recorded a leave to claim against the court decision. Rejecting the leave to offer, the Appellate Division announced for the decision. 

As per the full decision of the Appellate Division, the BGMEA has been requested to annihilate the 15-story building named 'BGMEA Complex' which remains on a basic spot in the capital, hindering the association between two substantial water bodies – Hatirjheel lake and Begunbari trench. On the off chance that BGMEA would neglect to complete, Rajuk was told to assume control over the work inside 90 days of getting the duplicate of the decision. For this situation, they would get the cost of the pulverization from BGMEA. 

The BGMEA building was worked around two decades back, jeopardizing wetlands in Dhaka. In 1998, at that point Prime Minister Sheik Hasina established the framework stone of the building. The development started that year. The building was initiated in 2006 by Khaleda Zia as the executive. 

The High Court requested it to be crushed in 2011 as the building was developed disregarding the law. The Appellate Division in June a year ago maintained the decision. 

In October 2010, the High Court issued an administer inquiring as to why the building ought not be pulverized. 

The manage came after a legal counselor displayed a report conveyed by an English every day on the BGMEA Complex. 

The court at that point looked for clarifications from the secretary of people in general works service, RAJUK, BGMEA president, locale organization and Dhaka metro police official.