Fact Box: All You Need To Know About Bangladesh Metro Rail Project

02:48 PM, April 30, 2018 / LAST MODIFIED: 04:02 PM, April 30, 2018
Fact box: All you need to know about Bangladesh metro rail project
The much-hyped first-ever metro rail

service in Dhaka is expected to start
initial operations from next year.
With high promises of saving the city

dwellers from the menace of traffic
congestions, the construction work of
the project is moving on with speed.
Here are each and every detail regarding

Star Online Report the project that you may have a desire to
know.
Metro rail fact sheet
 Dhaka Metro Rail Project total cost of Tk 22,000 crore

 Officially known as the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Line-6, metro rail service is expected to
open half of its 20.10 kilometres by the end of 2019
 Once completed, the service would carry 60,000 passengers/hour
 20km Metro Rail route will be constructed from Uttara to Bangladesh Bank having 16 stops
 The project will save of Tk 200 billion/ year, equivalent to 1.5% gross domestic production
(GDP) and 17% of the total tax revenue
 It will significantly reduce travel time from one end to the other to 36 minutes from at least
two hours
 The Japan government through Jica will provide Tk 16,600 crores of the total project cost of
Tk 22,000 crore ($2.5 billion) as loan at 0.01% interest rate. The rest will have to be
managed by the government
 Nippon Koei Ltd of Japan is leading the consortium of consultants with partners Nippon
Koei India Ltd, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Ltd, Mott MacDonald Ltd India, Mott
MacDonald Ltd UK and Development Design Consultants Ltd Bangladesh
 The consortium has prepared metro's detailed design, supervised construction work and
helped manage Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit Development Project, the official name of the
metro scheme, with Dhaka Transport Coordination Authority (DTCA) as its implementing
agency
 The metro rail will have 16 stations at Uttara, Mirpur, Rokeya Sarani, Khamarbari,
Farmgate, Sonargaon Hotel, Shahbagh, Doel Chattar and on Topkhana Road.
 The 12km track of the first part stretches from north Uttara to Agargaon.
 According to Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica), 14 trains would operate every
three minutes and carry 60,000 passengers every hour in both directions.
 The estimated time to travel the 20km distance, from north end of Uttara to Motijheel, is 35
minutes. The trains would have six cars each, all air conditioned.
 The government has allocated Tk 3,425.83 crore for the project in 2018 fiscal year, which is
about 64 percent of the amount it was supposed to foot.
 The second phase, which will be from Agargaon to Motijheel, will be complete by December
2020. The service will start with six trains and once the second phase is completed 24 trains
will be sent out. The trains will be from Mitsubishi.
 The metro rail will have noise barriers and vibration-free tracks and thus be environment-
friendly. the cars would be made of stainless steel and aluminium alloy,
 The project is being implemented by government-owned Dhaka Mass Transit Company Ltd
while Dhaka Transport Coordination Authority is supervising.
Project timeline
 In December 2012, the Executive Committee on National Economic Council approves the
Metro Rail scheme.
 In February 2013, Jica signs the loan agreement with Bangladesh.
 On November 19, 2013, Md Aftabuddin Talukder, executive director of DTCA and Yoshiko
Tsunoda, chairman of Nippon Koei Ltd, sign the consultancy deal in Dhaka.
 The $2.7b metro rail project got a shot in the arm upon receiving Japanese funding in
February 2014.
 Road Transport and Bridge Minister Obaidul Quader placed the Metro Rail Bill 2014 on
November 30, 2014 at the parliament in a bid to provide fast and improved public
transportation in Dhaka and ease traffic congestion in the capital.
 The first tender for pre-qualification to procure 24 locomotives, 144 coaches and
equipment for the depot was floated early January 2015.
 On March 27, 2015, the government signed a contract with Japanese Tokyu Construction
Company to develop the Metro Rail depot.
 Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on June 26, 2016 inaugurated the construction work on the
much-hyped first-ever metro rail service in the capital. Through the inauguration of the
construction work, a formal commencement of ground development for a depot began
today. The depot is the foremost component to be in place for building the metro rail
service system, as metro trains will be launched on the elevated lines from the depot.
 The prime minister inaugurated the construction work from Bangabandhu International
Conference Centre in the capital.
 The project has been delayed by at least six months because of the terrorist attack in
Gulshan in July 2016 that claimed the lives of seven Japanese nationals involved with the
project.
 Authorities of Dhaka's maiden metro rail project on May 3, 2017, signed three contracts
with two companies for the civil construction work at the Uttara depot and building
elevated rail viaducts from north Uttara to Agargaon. According to one of the contracts
signed, a joint venture of Italian-Thai Development Public Company and Sinohydro
Corporation is going to do the Tk 1,595 crore civil constructions at the metro rail depot,
 The metro authorities signed the other two contracts (package-3 and -4) with Ital-Thai. The
contracts worth Tk 4,230 crore were for the construction of 10km-long elevated viaducts
and nine stations between north Uttara to Agargaon.
 The authorities gave the work order to the contractors on August 1, 2017.
 Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on August 2, 2017 inaugurated
construction of the first part of the elevated railway (viaduct) and nine stations of the
country's much talked-about maiden metro rail in the capital. This is the visible beginning
of physical construction of the elevated rail tracks and stations
 On September 13, 2017, three more agreements with Chinese and Thai firms on the
country's first-ever metro rail project were signed. Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited
(DMTCL), a state-owned enterprise founded to implement the metro rail lines across the
Dhaka city, signed the separate contract packages (CPs) including CP-2, CP-3 and CP-4
worth over Tk 58.26 billion ($719 million) with the firms, Italian-Thai Development Public
Company Limited, a Thailand-based construction firm, and Chinese state-owned Sinohydro
Corporation Limited.
 On April 30, 2018, Dhaka Mass Transit Company Ltd today signed contracts with two joint-
venture companies for package-5 and package-6 of MRT Line-6 known as Metro Rail. Dhaka
Mass Transit Company signed contract for Package-5 with Takken Corporation, Abdul
Monem Ltd and Abenikko JV for Tk 1,855 crore. And for Tk 2,332 crore, it inked a deal with
Sumitomo Mitsui Construction Co Ltd JV Package-6.
01:48 PM, October 01, 2019 / LAST MODIFIED: 02:07 PM, October 01, 2019
Metrorail project workers stage demo for ‘forcing them to

quit job’
A section of workers of metro rail project

stages demonstration on Begum Rokeya
Sarani in the capital's Mirpur area on
Tuesday, October 1, 2019 for what they
said forcing them to quit the job. Photo:
Shaheen Mollah/Star. Photo: Shaheen
Mollah
Star Online Report
A section of workers of metro rail project staged demonstration on Begum Rokeya

Sarani in the capital's Mirpur area this morning for what they said forcing them to
quit the job.
Nearly 200 workers took to the streets and brought out a procession on Begum Rokeya
Sarani road around 10:40am, reports our staff correspondent from the spot.
More workers joined them in the protest that continued for 30 minutes.
While talking to The Daily Star, Faruk Islam said Masud Enterprise, a local recruitment
agency, appointed him for three years under the project in 2018 with the basic salary of Tk
13,000 per month. But now the agency asked him to quit the job, he alleged.
Faruk claimed that the recruitment agency sacked eight workers on September 26.
“Like me, the agency asked many other workers to resign,” Faruk added.
Contacted, Assistant Manager of Masud Enterprise Aminul Islam said two companies --
Masud Enterprise and Adam Enterprise -- will sack 624 workers, out of 4,500, as the
project has been nearly completed.
“The workers will be sacked from the job as per the agreement,” he added.
Managing Director of the Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit Company (DMTCL) MAN Siddique said
it is simple that the demand of workers will be reduced with the progress of work on metro
rail. Moreover, a large part of the metro rail in Mirpur area has completed.
Usually, the contractor of the project recruited manpower on temporary basis through sub-
contractor, so it is not a matter of the metro rail project authorities, said the official of
DMTCL, which was formed to set up the metro rail lines.
As the demand of the work came down in Mirpur area, the sub-contractor of the project
might ask the workers to resign from the job, he said.
“We have no legal right for recruiting workers directly under the project,” he said.

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02:48 PM, April 30, 2018 / LAST MODIFIED: 04:02 PM, April 30, 2018

The much-hyped first-ever metro rail

With high promises of saving the city

Here are each and every detail regarding

 Dhaka Metro Rail Project total cost of Tk 22,000 crore

Metrorail project workers stage demo for ‘forcing them to

A section of workers of metro rail project

Star Online Report

A section of workers of metro rail project staged demonstration on Begum Rokeya

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