Hasina’s younger sister Sheikh Rehana was present as a special guest while road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader, Japanese ambassador to Bangladesh Iwama Kiminori, JICA Bangladesh office chief representative Ichiguchi Tomohide, the chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on the road transport and bridges ministry, Rawshan Ara Mannan, Dhaka-18 constituency lawmaker Habib Hasan, road transport and highways division secretary ABM Amin Ullah Nuri, Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited managing director MAN Siddique, and Mass Rapid Transit Line 6 project director Aftabuddin Talukder, accompanied the prime minister on the podium.īangladesh Sangbad Sangstha reported that the first ever metro train, carrying the prime minister and Sheikh Rehana along with around 200 selected passengers, left North Uttara station for Agargaon at 01:53pm. Once all six MRT lines were completed by 2030, these would carry 50.4 lakh passengers daily, she said, urging the passengers to keep the stations and trains clean while using them and cause no damage to any machines. The highest speed of the train will be 110 kilometres per hour, she said, and added that the service would save travel time and cost and would create employment opportunities for skilled manpower. ‘Metro rail is itself a milestone, secondly, the country entered the era of electric trains with this, thirdly, the metro rail would be operated and controlled by a digitalised remote control system and finally, it took Bangladesh to a speeding train system,’ she said, adding that the service would play its part in making Bangladesh smart as per the government announcement. Senior government officials and people from all walks of life gathered at the venue to watch the inauguration of the first-ever metro rail service in Bangladesh.Īt the gathering, Hasina said that at least four milestones were achieved with the inauguration of the metro rail. The inauguration programme, organised by the road transport and bridges ministry, began at 11:00am. Marking the occasion, the prime minister also unveiled a commemorative stamp and a Tk 50 banknote. The prime minister inaugurated the operation of the first phase of the project, Uttara to Agargaon, at Uttara sector-15 playground and travelled to Agargaon as the first metro rail passenger. Initially, the trains will run for four hours daily without stopping at any station between Uttara and Agargaon, and passengers will have to pay Tk 60 as fare. › Six MRT lines to crisscross Bangladesh capital by 2030.› Bangladesh set to enter metro rail era.SUNAMGANJ HAOR EMBANKMENT PROJECTS 40pc works still to be done as deadline missed.New, outlying district public univs failing to woo students.Not for anyone to walk dully along, and away.Foreigners working illegally go unchecked.Follies in following in the footstep of Hindi.Indian media report warrants no response: foreign ministry.Quota-system of job distribution needs to be reformed.Government must protect civilians in frontiers.
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