Metro rail’s Mirpur-10 station reopens Tuesday
Staff Correspondent
The Mirpur-10 station of Dhaka metro rail will resume operations Tuesday, after nearly three months, the rail operating company’s Managing Director Mohammad Abdur Rouf told reporters Monday.
The repairing cost is still being calculated, Abdur Rouf said while speaking at the administrative office of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Ltd (DMTCL) in Diyabari, Uttara.
The Mirpur-10 station, along with the Kazipara station, was vandalised by unidentified miscreants on 19 July, at the height of the job quota reform movement.
The then Awami League government has said reopening the entire overhead railway service would take more than a year and cost around Tk350 crore. The claims only laid bare the regime’s corrupt and authoritative malpractices.
Only about 20 days after the ouster of the regime in the student-led July-August movement, the railway network was re-launched without the damaged stations.
The Kazipara station was reopened on 20 September, just about two months after its closure at a cost of Tk20.5 lakh. The cost for repairing the Mirpur-10 station would likely be higher as it suffered greater violence.
