Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited is likely to start selling the Rapid passes at the end of this month, said officials.
At the same time they will also start replacing the MRT passes with the Rapid passes if the MRT passes are lost and become unusable.
The company will not sell any MRT passes again.
Currently the integration works are ongoing with the Dhaka Transport Coordination Authority for selling the Rapid passes, said the DMTCL officials.
Of the six proposed Mass Rapid Transit lines, metro trains are now running on the first portion of the elevated MRT Line-6 project on the Uttara鈥揗otijheel route.
Passengers can use this train service in three ways 鈥� using MRT passes, single-journey tickets and Rapid passes.
鈥楩rom the end of this month we are likely to sell the Rapid passes from the MRT stations,鈥� a senior Mass Rapid Transit Line 鈥� 6 project official said on Sunday.
The DMTCL company managing director Mohammad Abdur Rouf told 抖阴精品 on Sunday that they have the plan to start selling the Rapid passes as soon as possible.
鈥楥urrently we are working for the integration of the selling, recharging and other systems related to the passes,鈥� he said.
According to the DMTCL, a total of around 8 lakh MRT passes have been sold which are rechargeable. On October 14, DMTCL stopped selling MRT passes officially.
The company initially introduced 3.13 lakh single-journey tickets out of which around 2 lakh went 鈥榤issing鈥� till now as those were not submitted at the ticket machines after using.
The metro rail service on the Uttara鈥揂gargaon section was inaugurated on December 28, 2022 and from next day (December 29, 2022) the MRT passes and single-journey tickets were made available for passengers.
For introducing an integrated e-ticketing system 鈥� One Card for all Transport 鈥� for all public transports, the DTCA introduced Rapid pass in the meantime.
The DMTCL signed a Public Transport Operator agreement with the DTCA on September 19, 2022 to introduce the Rapid pass system, fare collection and settlement.
At the metro stations, now there are separate rooms for selling and reissuing MRT passes. Now the MRT passes are being reissued only in lost and damage cases.
Since October, the DTCA started to sell Rapid passes from the stations.
On Sunday noon at Karwan Bazar and Farmgate stations people were seen buying Rapid passes from the DTCA staff from small tables.
An employee told 抖阴精品 that daily around 150 tickets were being sold at each of the 16 MRT stations.
Md Zakaria, additional project director of the MRT Line 6 project, said that after selling around 8 lakh MRT passes, they kept the rest for replacing the passes which would be damaged or lost.
鈥榃e will not buy anymore MRT passes,鈥� he said, adding that most recently they bought 20,000 more single journey tickets.
By December this year, around 4.20 lakh more tickets would come, he mentioned.
Recently a debate raised on social media over removing from the new tickets images of four national symbols 鈥� the Central Shaheed Minar, National Parliament Building, National Mausoleum, and the national flower, the water lily.
Md Zakaria said that earlier the MRT passes and the single journey tickets were looked alike which made the passengers confused and they took the tickets with them instead of submitting these.
The securities personnel at the exit points became confused to check the tickets mistaking these as the MRT passes, he continued.
鈥楩or ending the confusion we changed the design of the single journey tickets,鈥� he added.
