Dhaka, April 24 -- Over a decade gone by since the disastrous Rana plaza collapse, 665 out of 1800 listed garment factories in Bangladesh have so far completed initially identified fire-, electrical-and structural-safety hazards, sources say.

The coordinated factory- safety programme in the country's export industry was launched immediately after the big-hulk commercial building imploded in 2013.

As a reckoning begins with requiem on another anniversary of the tragedy, industry leaders cite the shortage of manpower, slow progress in follow-up inspections and inclusion of boiler safety and new findings in the to-do list of the monitoring agency-RSC or RMG Sustainability Council-which took over the initiative.

The initiative was initiate...