The Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited will import 4,40,000 more single journey tickets in the context of increasing demand and damages of previously imported tickets.
India prints the ticket and Japan provides the chips and raw materials as per the contract.
鈥榃e took the initiative to procure new 4.4 lakh single journey tickets in September. We have received 20,000 cards in November and will get another 20,000 in the last week of December,鈥� DMTCL managing director Mohammad Abdur Rouf told 抖阴精品. He said that the rest of the cards would be arrived in phases in January and February.
He said that they had bought 3,13,000 single journey tickets and 60,000 of them are still in hand.
鈥楳any single journey tickets were taken away by people and some others were also damaged,鈥� he added.
Asked about why they did not print tickets from Bangladesh, Abdur Rouf said that they had to buy tickets from Japan-India joint venture Nippon Koei Ltd as per the contract.
鈥楯apan is providing chips and raw materials and India is printing,鈥� he added.