The metro rail services in the capital will remain closed on Eid day, according to an office order of the Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited that operates the metro rail services.
Bangladesh will celebrate Eid-ul-Azha, one of the biggest religious festivals of Muslims, on Saturday.
The office order also reads that metro rail services will resume on June 8 at 8:00am, instead of from 7:10am which is it usual starting time, and the trains will run every 30 minutes.
From June 9 the metro trains will run following the public holiday schedule.
According to its public holiday schedule, metro trains start running from 7:10am and run every 12 minutes and 10 minutes in off-peak and peak hours respectively.
Public holiday for Eid will begin today (June 5) and end on June 14.
The 20.1-kilometre-long Mass Rapid Transit Line 6 project, popularly known as metro rail, is the first ever elevated, fully air-conditioned and a electricity-run rail system in the country.
The metro rail service was opened to the public first on the Uttara-Agargaon section on December 28, 2022. It was then extended till Motijheel and the section was opened to the public on November 4, 2023.