The Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited has revised the weekday schedule of the metro rail services for the entire Ramadan month.
Train time for the weekly holidays 鈥� Fridays and Saturdays - remained unchanged.
Additionally, the passengers are allowed to carry 250 millimetre water bottles on metro trains and at stations during the evening for iftar but no food items.
The company, the implementing agency of the metro rail services, published a special schedule on its website on February 27 in this regard.
The holy month of Ramadan will start today, March 2, as a crescent moon was sighted in the sky over Bangladesh on Saturday.
Currently, the country鈥檚 first-ever elevated and fully air-conditioned rail services are available on the Uttara-Motijheel section daily.
As per the special schedule, metro trains will run from Uttara to Motijheel at 10-minute intervals from 7:10am to 7:30am and from 6:51pm to 9:00pm and at eight-minute intervals from 7:31am to 6:50pm.
Trains from Motijheel to Uttara will run at 10-minute intervals from 7:30am to 8:00am and from 7:31pm to 9:40pm and at eight-minute intervals from 8:01am to 7:30pm.
Usually the metro trains run from Uttara to Motijheel at 10-minute intervals from 7:10am to 7:30am, 11:37am to 2.36pm and from 8:21pm to 9:00pm and at eight-minute intervals from 7:31am to 11:36am and from 2.37pm to 8:20pm.
Trains from Motijheel to Uttara usually run at 10-minute intervals from 7:30am to 8:00am, from 12:17pm to 3:15pm and from 9:01pm to 9:40pm and at eight-minute intervals from 8:01am to 12:16pm and from 3:16pm to 9:00pm.
Meanwhile, the special train schedule also read that for iftar the passengers can carry 250mm water bottle with them inside the metro trains and at station area.聽
The passengers will have to be careful for not splitting water inside the metro rail station areas and to drop used bottles in the dustbins.
No food items will be allowed inside the platforms, concourse and trains.
The first mass rapid transit project 鈥� line-6 鈥� on the Uttara鈥揂gargaon section was inaugurated on December 28, 2022, which was extended to Motijheel on November 4, 2023.