Agargaon (, romanised: Agargao) is an elevated metro station of the Dhaka Metro's MRT Line 6. It is located in Agargaon, and was opened on 29 December 2022.
History
The Agargaon Metro Station was constructed under "Package CP-03". The notification of application for construction of raised bridges for stations and railways was published on 30 June 2015 and the last date for submission of applications was 9 September 2015. Italian-Thai Development Public Company Limited gets work contract for "Package CP-03". The agreement document was sent to the ministry on 29 March 2016 for NBR investigation and law and parliamentary investigation. The signing ceremony for the agreement package was held on 3 May 2017 at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in Dhaka. Construction work started on 2 August 2017. It was inaugurated on 29 December 2022 and opened on the next day.
Station Station layout GPath levelExit / EntryL1BetweenRent control, station agent, metro card vending machine, crossoverL2Platform 1SouthboundTowards → Motijheel(To be further extended to Kamalapur in the near future) next station is Bijoy SaraniIsland platform | Doors will open on the right Island platform | Doors will open on the right Platform 2NorthboundTowards ← Uttara North next station is Shewrapara
Connectivity Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation provides shuttle bus service from the station to Motijheel via Farmgate and Shahbag.
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