Online Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the Agargaon-Motijheel section of metro rail on October 20. Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader informed reporters of the development at the Secretariat today.
The Uttara-Agargaon section of the country’s first metro-rail line, formally known as MRT Line-6, was opened in December last year. Since then, the demand for trains on the Agargaon-Motijheel route has increased as the major catchment area runs through 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.