Newly elected president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) Mahmud Hasan Khan Babu has announced to reduce members' subscription fee by 25 percent.
He made the commitment while taking over the charge at a ceremony on Monday at BGMEA building in Uttara.
Officially, Babu took the charge from BGMEA administrator Anwar Hossain.
Others who were installed at the event included First Vice President Selim Rahman, Senior Vice President Enamul Haque Khan, Vice President Md. Md. Rezwan Selim, Vice President (Finance), Mizanur Rahman, Vice President, Bhidia Amrit Khan, Vice President Md. Shihab Uddoza Chowdhury and Vice President Mohammad Rafiq Chowdhury took over their charges.
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Babu made promises to improve service of the organisation to its members including reducing subscription fee by 25 percent from July 2025.
The new president also announced to work with all members, different panels members and leaders along with former presidents as a family of the garment sector, forgetting division.
Babu called BGMEA members to work for USD $100 billion export goal from garment sector overcoming global and domestic challenges.
He also urged the government to halt SDG graduation, simplify custom's clearance, and ease of doing business.
The BGMEA president gave commitment to establish a transparent BGMEA and online platform to show service information to its members.
The outgoing administrator gave a statement on earnings and expenditures during his tenure in the BGMEA.
In the charge handover ceremony, former presidents of BGMEA Anisur Rahman Sinha, Rubana Hoque, Faruque Hassan, Moniruzzaman, Fazlur Rahman, Rafiqul Islam also spoke.
The BGMEA elections 2025-27 were completed on May 31. In continuation of this, the election of new office bearers for the term 2025-27 at the BGMEA Complex in Uttara.
Eight candidates submitted their nominations for the eight office bearer posts in the election, and the board verified them. Later, the final list was published, according to a release signed by Secretary Faizur Rahman.
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As there were no rival candidates, and no party appealed against the eight final list, the election board declared the candidates who submitted their nominations elected as office bearers. The results were announced by the Chairman of the BGMEA Election Board, former Chairman of Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC), Mohammad Iqbal. He was accompanied by Election Board member Syed Afzal Hasan Uddin and former DCCI president Ashraf Ahmed.