4 metro stations to open this month

• Kazipara, Mirpur 11 open  March 15 
• Uttara South, Sewrapara last week of March

The metro rail authorities will open Kazipara and Mirpur 11 stations on March 15, and Uttara South and Sewrapara stations in the last week of this month.

MAN Siddique, managing director of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Ltd, shared the information at a press conference yesterday.

He said a total of 7.9 lakh people used the service till Wednesday and the authorities earned Tk 4.76 crore from the service.

He also said they would start increasing the duration of the train operation after opening all nine stations and also go for full-fledged (morning to midnight) operation from July.

Currently, metro trains are being operated from 8:30am to 12:30pm.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on December 28 last year inaugurated the country's first-ever metro rail and it was opened to public on the following day.

At first, the trains were operated between Uttara to Agargaon without any stoppage. Later, two more stations -- Pallabi and Uttara Centre -- were made operational in two phases.