Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Introduction Bangladesh Ready Made Garments (RMGs) are the fnished textile product from clothing factories and the Bangladeshi RMG sector is one of the fastest growing sectors in the Bangladeshi economy, with a growth rate of 55% from 2002 to 2012. 1 .Exports of Textiles, Clothing, and Ready-Made Garments (RMG) accounted for 77% of Bangladesh’s total merchandise exports in 2002. By 2005 the (RMG) industry was the only multibillion-dollar manufacturing and export industry in Bangladesh, accounting for 75 per cent of the country’s earnings in that years. 2,3 Bangladesh’s export trade is now dominated by the ready-made garments (RMG) industry. In 2012 Bangladesh’s garment exports – mainly to the US and Europe, made up nearly 80% of the country’s export income. By 2014 the RMG industry represented 81.13 percent of Bangladesh’s total export. In the fnancial year 2016- 2017 the RMG industry generated US$30.614 billion, which was 83.49% of the total export earnings in exports and almost 12.50% of the Gross Domestic Products (GDP), the industry was also taking on green manufacturing practices. This report is the overview of before 2013 and after 2013 scenario of Bangladeshi Garments industries. 4,5 Average growth rate of this sector was over 20% per over the last two decades. This single sector alone earns about 80% of yearly foreign exchange of the country. Its contribution to GDP reaches 13% in fscal year 2009-2010. Since independence, no single sector could accelerate the industrialization process in the country as the RMG sector could do. It has created employment opportunity for about 3.5 million people. 6 Most of them are uneducated and unskilled. About 80% of them are women. To a creditable extent, it has been able to relieve the country from the burden of unemployment and at the same time contribute to the empowerment of women. Thus this sector is playing a vital role in socioeconomic development of the country. 7 But this sector is struggling with a number of problems. Confict between owners and workers, labor unrest, shortage of gas and electricity, poor infrastructure, poor port facility, lead time complexities, conspiracy of home and abroad, advancing competitors in the quota free international market are some of them which are posing a great threat to its survival. In recent time, labor unrest in the RMG sector has been a matter of serious concern. 8,9 Almost every day electronic and print media cover news of labor unrest in RMG sector in one place or another across the country. Fixing new minimum wage for the garment workers and issue of implementing the new wage structure have been the prime causes of recent labor unrests across the country. The unrest takes shape of violence and vandalism. The agitated workers come to the street and go storming on vehicles and garment factories. 10 The attacked factory is declared closed; many labor leaders are arrested, many workers lose jobs or suffer from uncertainty; losing interest in the uncertainty, the international buyers cancel their orders and divert to another market. The industry comes to a deadlock situation. 11 The growth of RMG sector in Bangladesh is amazing one and it has been possible mainly because of hard work of labor-force. Rashid, (2010) observes, “It is a story of success, of winning against all odds. It is a story of a nation, which has vowed to overcome all the barriers with limited resources and immense passion. 12 But this glory is being diminished day by day due to labor unrest in this sector. It is designed to unearth the causes of labor unrest and search the areas where Public-Private Partnership can work to address the problem. 13,14 Materials and methods Materials In this Project, the some very normal materials are used to carry out the data collection and analysis. Those materials are: a. Statistical data b. Foreign Trade Source J Textile Eng Fashion Technol. 2019;5(4):202‒211. 202 © 2019 Elahi, et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and build upon your work non-commercially. Comparative analysis in RMG industries before and after Rana Plaza incident in Bangladesh Volume 5 Issue 4 - 2019 Sazid Elahi, 1 Md Dulal Hosen, 2 Md Eanamul Haque Nizam, 3 Solaiman Bin Ali, 4 Rakibul Islam Shifat 3 1 Department of Apparel Engineering, Bangladesh University of Textile (BUTEX), Bangladesh 2 Department of Textile Engineering, Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University (MBSTU), Bangladesh 3 BGMEA University of Fashion & Technology (BUFT), Bangladesh 4 Department of Wet Processing Engineering, Bangladesh University of Textile (BUTEX), Bangladesh Correspondence: Md Dulal Hosen, Department of Textile Engineering (TE), Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University (MBSTU), Bangladesh, Tel +8801934768816, Email Received: July 01, 2019 | Published: July 23, 2019 Abstract Ready Made Garments (RMG) is the top order Export oriented remittance earning sector of Bangladesh since 1987. Bangladeshi Garments industry has a tremendous past. But in recent time one tragedy has found in apparel sector. Rana Plaza, an eight-story commercial building, collapsed on 24 April 2013, in Savar. The offcial death toll of the accident is 1,129 and approximately 2,500 injured people were rescued from the building alive. This catastrophe determined a turning point for Bangladeshi RMGs: After this disaster in apparel sector, government took some steps for improving the working condition, health & safety, labor right, wages of garments worker of Bangladesh. This study focuses the overall scenario of before & after Rana Plaza collapsed. Keywords: readymade garments, GDP, export, wages, unrest, labor right and safety & health, rana plaza Journal of Textile Engineering & Fashion Technology Research Article Open Access