The authorities on Thursday backtracked from resuming the metro rail services in the capital on August 17.
A press release, issued by the Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited, the implementing agency of the metro rail, on Thursday evening revealed the information.
It read that the government had on August 11 given directives to resume the services by the next seven days after necessary technical tests.
The technical tests could not be started for unavoidable reasons, it continued.
The release said that the services, under these circumstances, would not be resumed as per the earlier plan.
The decision to resume the services was taken and announced at a meeting of the Advisory Council of the interim government held at the state guest house Jamuna on August 11.
Decision was also taken that the trains would not stop at the damaged Mirpur 10 and Kazipara stations.
Earlier, the authorities closed down metro rail services for an indefinite period since July 20 amid the student protests.
On July 19, Mirpur 10 and Kazipra stations were vandalised by some people.
The 20.1-kilometre-long Mass Rapid Transit Line鈥�6 project, popularly known as the metro rail, was inaugurated on the 11.73-kilometre-long Uttara鈥揂gargaon section on December 28, 2022.