Bangladesh's first metro rail bogie, MRT Line-6, has left Japan for Bangladesh.
Bangladesh's first metro rail bogie has left Japan for Bangladesh.
The first metro train set of Bangladesh has started its journey to Bangladesh from Kobe port of Japan this afternoon.
The city-based railway system under construction in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is the Dhaka Metro, officially known as Mass Rapid Transit or MRT for short. In 2013, a strategic transport plan was formulated to reduce the growing traffic congestion and road congestion in the overcrowded Dhaka metropolis, under which a metro rail was planned to be set up in Dhaka for the first time. Later, according to the revised strategic transport plan made in 2016, the number of metro rail lines to be built in Dhaka was increased from 3 to 5. In the first phase, 20.1 km long MRT Line-6 from Uttara to Motijheel was selected. The construction work of MRT Line-6 started on 26 June 2016 with the inauguration ceremony.