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PM inaugurates metro rail

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the metro rail project at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) in the capital on Sunday morning.The Premier also opened the construction work of Gazipur Bus Depot as part of the construction work of 20.5-kilometer Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) from Gazipur to Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport under Dhaka Sustainable Urban Transport Project through the same function.The MRT-6 Project is being executed at a cost of about Taka 22,000 crore. Of the amount, the JICA is providing Taka 16,500 crore to the project, while the rest of the fund would come from the Government of Bangladesh (GoB), official sources said.The fast moving metro rail will run to and from Uttara and Motijheel via Mirpur and Farmgate, carrying 60,000 passengers in an hour touching every station once in every four minutes.