The launch services on the Banglabazar-Shimulia route will operate from 6:30 am to 10 pm to avoid passenger pressure during the Eid-ul-Fitr journey, which effecting on Wednesday.
Akter Hossain, the traffic inspector of Banglabazar launch ghat of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA), confirmed the matter to Jago News.
The ghat sources said 87 launches are plying on the route for transporting the homebound people on the occasion of the upcoming Eid.
Earlier, the launches would operate to 8:30 pm and now it will run to 10 pm until May 15, the sources added.
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