DHAKA, Dec 12, 2021 (BSS) - 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 today. 

   "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.