PM to open Agargaon-Motijheel Metro rail Service October 20
Staff Reporter :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate the Agargaon-Motijheel section of Bangladesh’s first-ever Metro rail Service on October 20.
Apart from this, the government has taken a decision on providing a compensation of Tk. 5 lakhto the family members ofthose who died in road accidents and Tk 3 lakh to those who lost limbs.
Besides, construction work on the Mass Rapid Transit Line 5’s northern route (Hemayetpur-Bhatara) will also be inaugurated on September 16.
On these occasions, the ruling party Awami League will organise two separate rallies.
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader came up with this while talking to reporters during a press briefing at the secretariat on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the Road Transport and Bridges Ministry has also fixed the toll rates for the Dhaka Elevated Expressway’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport-Farmgate route ranging from Tk 80 to Tk 400.
The Prime Minister would also join a citizens’ rally at 3:00pm at the Suhrawardy Udyan on October 20 on the occasion of inauguration of Agargaon-Motijheel Metro Rail Services, Obaidul Quader, also General Secretary of Awami League, said.
Currently, the Metro Rail, the mass rapid transit line 6, is running for 12 hours between 8:00am and 8:00pm taking passengers from all the nine stations on the Uttara-Agargaon route every day except Friday.
With the Sunday’s announcement, the elevated service on the 20.1-kilometre-long Uttara-Motijheel route will become commercially operational while the entire 21.26-km-long Uttara-Kamalapur route is scheduled to be inaugurated in June 2025.
The Minister on Sunday also said that the prime minister would also inaugurate the construction work of the mass rapid transit line 5’s northern route (Hemayetpur-Bhatara) on September 16.
A citizens’ rally would be held at Hemayetpur in Savar at 11:00am on the day, he added.
The Prime Minister would also inaugurate the compensation distribution programme among 243 road crash victims and their families on October 22, Obaidul Quader said.
On the same day, she would open 140 bridges, 12 overpasses and one vehicle inspection centre, he added.
However, the government would provide Tk 5 lakh as compensation to the family members of those who died in road accidents while Tk 3 lakh to those who lost limbs, said Obaidul Quader.
“We have decided to provide compensation as per the directives of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and she will inaugurate the compensation programme on National Road Safety Day in October,” he said.
Replying to a question, chairman of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority Nur Mohammad Majumdar said, ‘The arrangements to provide compensation to road accident victims started in January and so far, we have received 243 applications till August 17.
The cheques will be prepared after completing all procedures.’
In response to a query whether it will be a continuous process, the BRTA chairman said, ‘It will continue.’
