A JICA delegation of three led by its Chief Representative in Bangladesh Hitoshi Hirata revealed the information to Planning Minister MA Mannan during a meeting in the capital on Monday. Briefing the media later, the planning minister said: “I wanted to know about MRT 6 from the JICA representative. He told me that the metrorail project under MRT 6 will end by 2022 and the last MRT project will be completed by 2022.”Among the six projects under MRT, the metrorail has progressed most. Government officials expect to launch train services from Uttara to Agargaon, the first phase of the metrorail project, by the end of this year. The planning minister said the Japan-funded projects suffered some damage due to the killings of Japanese nationals working in the metrorail project along with other foreigners in the Holey Artisan cafe terrorist attack in 2016.

Source: bd News24 February 11, 2019 20:26 UTC