Mariam Afiza will run the metro on opening day

News Desk :

Mariam Afiza will become the first metro rail operator of the Mass Rapid Transit line-6 as the nation’s much anticipated first metro rail is set to begin operating in part in the city (Uttara-Agargaon segment) on Wednesday.
Among other positions, Dhaka Mass Transit Company appointed six women as metro rail operators, and these individuals have already received their training.
Afiza has earned a master’s degree in chemistry from Noakhali Science and Technology University. On November 2 of last year, she was hired as a metro rail operator.
The managing director of Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL), MAN Siddique, reported that Afiza had completed a two-month training program at the Bangladesh Railway Training Academy in Halishahar, Chattogram.
He continued, “She went back to Dhaka and finished another four months of training.”
At the metro rail depot in Uttara’s Diabari, operators are receiving technical and practical training from professionals from the Japanese metro rail construction company Mitsubishi-Kawasaki, he continued.
Initially, the metro train will run from 8 am to 12 noon every day from Uttara station to Agargaon station without any stoppage.