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Metrorail to run from Fazr to midnight in July

 New Nation
 Published: 12:00 AM, 10 February 2023

Staff Reporter :
Though the Metrorail is now operating from Uttara Uttar Station to Agargaon Station, it will run from Fazr to midnight in July.
Apart from this, Uttara Centre and Mirpur-10 stations of metro rail will be opened to passengers on February 18 and
March 1 respectively. Managing Director of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) MAN Siddique said this while talking to reporters in its head office in the city’s Eskaton on Thursday.
Currently, commuters are using Uttara North Station to Pallabi, Pallabi to Uttara, and Agargaon to Pallabi for four hours a day from 8 am to 12 pm.
“Full operation of metro rail will start from July till midnight. Then office going people will be able to use the train smoothly. The office goers have been failing to use the Metrorail because of miss massing with Metrorail running time and office time. So, we have decided to operate the train from Fazr to midnight in July,” said MAN Siddique.
The desired passengers are still not met due to the differences between the metro rail running time and office time; he said adding “We have earlier said that starting of full operation of Metrorail services will go step by step like all the Metrorail of the world. It is a worldwide practice and Bangladesh also running Metrorail following them.”
MAN Siddique said that if the metro rail is fully operational from Uttara to Kamalapur, it will be able to transport 60,000 passengers per hour and five lakh passengers per day.
Earlier, on January 25, the authorities opened the Mirpur’s Pallabi Station after nearly one month after the inauguration of the metro rail service in Dhaka on December 28 last year.
The government has fixed Tk 30 for Uttara North Station to Pallabi, Pallabi to Uttara and Agargaon to Pallabi.
According to Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited, the rail operation till Motijheel may start by the end of 2024, and Kamalapur by 2025.
By December 2024, Metrorail will start operation from Agargaon to Kamalapur route with 24 trains.
The length of MRT Line-6 from Uttara North to Kamalapur is about 22 kilometers, which construction cost stood Tk 33,472 crore. Out of this, Tk 19,718.70 crore is being spent from Japan’s International Cooperation Agency-JICA loan.