Shawdesh Desk:

Metro rail services in the capital will resume tomorrow after over a month.

The trains, however, will not stop at the damaged Mirpur 10 and Kazipara stations.

The metro rail services will run as per the previous schedule —between 7:10am and 9:40pm everyday except Friday, said a press release issued by the Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited on Saturday.

The company is the implementing agency of the metro rail.

On Friday metro rail services remain closed as weekly holiday.

Earlier, the authorities closed down metro rail services for an indefinite period since July 20 amid the student protests.

On July 19, Mirpur-10 and Kazipra stations were vandalised during the protests.

A decision to resume the metro rail services from August 17 was announced at a meeting of the Advisory Council of the interim government held at the state guest house Jamuna on August 11.

But the authorities backtracked from the decision citing unavoidable reasons.

Insiders said that the decision was cancelled as the authorities could not start trial run of the trains before resuming the services following the strike of the employees.

Most of these employees are engaged in metro rail operation and maintenance work.

Later they joined work after the authorities assured them of hiking salaries.

The 20.1-kilometre-long Mass Rapid Transit Line–6 project, popularly known as the metro rail, was inaugurated on the 11.73-kilometre-long Uttara–Agargaon section on December 28, 2022.

The services of the country’s first-ever electricity-powered elevated and air-conditioned rail system from Agargaon to Motijheel were inaugurated in November 2023.