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Road Transport and Bridges Adviser M Fouzul Kabir Khan said the Mirpur-10 metro rail station was reopened on Tuesday after repairing the station at a cost of Tk 1.25 crore.
“Today we reopened the Mirpur-10 metro station after two months and 17 days. Tk 1.25 crore has been spent to repair the Mirpur-10 metro rail station. Some damaged equipment was replaced here by unused ones from the other two stations,” he said.
But when the equipment for the other two stations will be brought, then the final cost against repairing the Kazipara and Mirpur-10 metro rail stations would be some Tk 18.86 crore, he said.
Some unused equipment has been brought from other stations and installed.
The adviser said this while exchanging greetings with metro rail passengers and journalists at Mirpur-10 metro rail station in the capital on the occasion of reopening the station.
The Mirpur-10 metro rail station has resumed operations, almost three months after it was damaged in July last.
On July 19, miscreants went on a rampage at Mirpur-10 and Kazipara metro stations amid the student movement for quota reform in the public service jobs, which later turned into a student-people uprising that toppled the Sheikh Hasina-led government.
The adviser said the Kazipara metro rail station was reopened on September 20 last.
He said they will not seek money from the government for the repair works as the cost of Tk 18.86 crore will be spent from the fund of the Mass Rapid Transit Company.
Senior Secretary of Road Transport and Highways Division Md Ehsanul Hoque and Managing Director of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Ltd Mohammad Abdur Rouf and others were present.