PM to Open Metro Rail’s Agargaon-Motijheel Section on Oct 20

The Agargaon-Motijheel section of the metro rail will be formally inaugurated by the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on October 20.

Obaidul Quader, the minister of bridges and road transportation, updated the media on the situation today at the secretariat.

Technically referred to as MRT Line-6, the Uttara-Agargaon section of the country's first metro-rail line opened in December of the previous year.

Since then, there has been an increase in demand for trains on the Agargaon-Motijheel line due to the fact that the major catchment area extends from Mirpur to Motijheel.

The government is implementing the fast-track project to build the 21.26km elevated metro line from Uttara to Kamalapur at a cost of Tk 33, 472 crore.