Delwar Hossain, MD, Tuba Group, has sought a loan worth Tk 30 crore from the government in order to get his businesses running again. Having sold a printing factory established on 16 kathas of land at Badda in Dhaka, a 9.5-katha plot and machinery of the closed factories to pay arrears of May and June to 1,600 workers of Tuba Group, Hossain admitted to having a guilty conscience and called upon fellow garment manufacturers to absorb the 1,100 workers of the five units shut down recently. “I hope I will again be able to export $50 lakh worth of goods a month if I can restart the business with the loan and employ 6,000 workers again,” said Hossain in his first public appearance since being released on bail from jail.
