Survivors of Rana Plaza Collapse: 57pc still unemployed
No govt aid for 92pc during pandemic: survey
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Staff Correspondent
Staff Correspondent
Around 57 percent of the survivors of the Rana Plaza building collapse the deadliest industrial disaster in the country s history have remained unemployed during the pandemic, a study finds.
Meanwhile, around 92 percent of them did not get any support from the government during the pandemic, according to a survey done by ActionAid Bangladesh.
Some of the respondents received food and health and hygiene material support from local-level groups and individuals, it said.
The findings of the survey were revealed yesterday at a virtual dialogue on Covid-19: Challenges for the Rana Plaza Tragedy Survivors organised by the ActionAid, marking the eighth year of the Rana Plaza disaster in Savar on April 24 in 2013 that left at least 1,138 people dead and 2,500 injured.