Agargaon metro station
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Bangladesh
Agargaon আগারগাঁও | |||||||||||
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| Dhaka Metro Rail station | |||||||||||
 Exterior of Agargaon metro station | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Other names | Station 9 | ||||||||||
| Location | Agargaon, Dhaka Bangladesh | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 23°46′40″N 90°22′49″E / 23.7776907°N 90.3802056°E | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | MRT Line 6 | ||||||||||
| Platforms | Island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Bus operators | BRTC | ||||||||||
| Connections |  Begum Rokeya Avenue | ||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||
| Structure type | Elevated | ||||||||||
| Platform levels | 3 | ||||||||||
| Parking | No | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | No | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes  | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 29 December 2022 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | 1,500 V DC overhead catenary | ||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||
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Agargaon (Bengali: আগারগাঁও, 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.[2][3]
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.[4][5] It was inaugurated on 29 December 2022 and opened on the next day.[6]
Station
Station layout
| G | Path level | Exit / Entry |
| L1 | Between | Rent control, station agent, metro card vending machine, crossover |
| L2 | Platform 1 Southbound |
Towards → Motijheel (To be further extended to Kamalapur in the near future) next station is Bijoy Sarani |
| Island platform | Doors will open on the right | ||
| Island platform | Doors will open on the right | ||
| Platform 2 Northbound |
Towards ← Uttara North next station is Shewrapara | |
