“Help us and focus on creating a factual, genuine narrative of Bangladesh readymade garments and textiles industries,” he said, speaking at a dialogue on Monday.

He observed that the image and perception of the industry was challenged in the global market.

Australia’s Monash University, UK’s Warwick University and Bangladesh’s Dhaka University jointly organised the dialogue styled “Ethics, Efficiency and Productivity in the RMG sector: Towards $50 billion exports by 2021” in Dhaka.

Alam observed that the industry was on the path of “transformation”, and in the process “hundreds of factory buildings are coming with global standard and compliance with environmental requirements”.

He said all global actors and stakeholders should act and deliver in the spirit of “shared responsibility for shared prosperity”.

Academicians from home and abroad, RMG entrepreneurs, government officials from different sectors and civil society representatives took part in the discussions where they shared different ideas about ethics, efficiency and productivity of the industry, the foreign ministry said.