Metro Rail to run on Agargaon-Diabari route from June 2022: DMTCL MD
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Metro Rail to run on Agargaon-Diabari route from June 2022: DMTCL MD

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TBS Report
17 June, 2021, 11:35 am
Last modified: 17 June, 2021, 11:38 am

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Metro Rail to run on Agargaon-Diabari route from June 2022: DMTCL MD

TBS Report
17 June, 2021, 11:35 am
Last modified: 17 June, 2021, 11:38 am
File photo of a metro train/Courtesy
File photo of a metro train/Courtesy

Metro rail service will be launched on the Uttara-Diabari route (MRT Line-6) from June next year.

"Viaduct test run on the route will be held in August this year," said MAN Siddique, managing director of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL), in a virtual briefing today.

He also said, "Construction of underground part of MRT line 1 (Airport, Natun Bazar, Kuril and Kamalapur points) from March 2022.

To build an effective transport system in Dhaka that will reduce traffic congestion, the MRT Line-6 was approved in 2012 at an estimated cost of Tk22,000 crore with Japanese assistance under the Strategic Transport Plan. 

As part of the project, a 20.1km metro rail line will be constructed from Diabari to Motijheel by 2024.
 

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