Shawdesh Desk:

The services of metro rail remained suspended for two and half hours on Wednesday in the capital following technical glitches.

The service remained suspended from 9:30am till 12:00pm, said Iftikhar Hossain, general manager for operations of the Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited.

He said that they were trying to find out what happened.

Another official said that the operation remained suspended due to technical glitch.

The disruption in the services caused huge sufferings to the commuters.

Currently, the metro rail is running for 12 hours from 8:00am to 8:00pm taking passengers from all the nine stations on the Uttara–Agargaon route every day except Friday amid huge enthusiasm.

The prime minister launched the country’s first-ever electricity-powered elevated and air-conditioned rail system on the 11.73-kilometre-long Uttara–Agargaon route on December 28, 2022.

She is scheduled to inaugurate metro rail service up to Motijheel in October.

Then, the elevated service on the 20.1-kilometre-long Uttara–Motijheel route will become commercially operational while the entire 21.26-km-long Uttara–Kamalapur route is scheduled to be inaugurated in June 2025.