The long-desired metro rail will go for commercial operation on December 16, 2022, as a performance test on the viaduct from Uttara to Agargaon station began yesterday.
“We hope that the much-awaited metro train service will be opened from Uttara to Agargaon by December 16 next year,” Managing Director of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) MAN Siddique told journalists after starting the performance test at Agargaon station in the city. He said that metro rail will start commercial operation through the entire route in December, 2023.
Earlier, the metro train went for a performance test on a viaduct from Uattar to Pallabi station on August 29 last and from Uttara to Mirpur 10 on November 29.
According to project details, a total of the 21.26-kilometre metro-rail project is being constructed in eight packages and the overall progress of construction work from Uttara to Motijheel-Kamalapur Railway stands at 72.99 per cent now, while 89.88 per cent of civil work between Uttara and Agargaon has been done.
The managing director expected that the construction of the viaduct to Doel Chattar will be completed within this month, while the viaduct to Motijheel will be finished by January 2022.
Constructions of all the stations will be completed within April next year as the construction work is going on in full swing, he added.
