ABSTRACT
The formal sector poor are defined as that section of the manual working class population who receive regular weekly or monthly salaries or wages, are not self-employed, but employed by a formal organisation, whether it is commercial, industrial, educational, technical or administrative or private, government or semi-government. Improvement in their work condition, education and health facilities for them and their children, provision for low-cost housing, access to safe water and sanitation facilities would improve the condition of Dhaka city. In the formal sector, education was dictated mainly by the minimum requirements of the job. In comparison with the informal sector poor, they were definitely more privileged, and indeed, they showed certain exploitative relationships with the informal sector poor, particularly in the rural areas. In 2005, the only group with a wider and realistic outlook among the formal sector poor was the garment workers.
