The Mirpur-10 station of Dhaka metro rail will resume operations Tuesday, after nearly three months.

Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) Managing Director Mohammad Abdur Rouf told reporters Monday (Oct 14).

The repairing cost is still being calculated, Abdur Rouf said while speaking at the administrative office of DMTCL in Diyabari, Uttara.

The Mirpur-10 station, along with the Kazipara station, was vandalised by unidentified miscreants on July 19, 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 September 20, 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.

BDST: 1805 HRS, OCT 14, 2024
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