Agargaon (, ''

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: Agargao'') is an elevated

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of the

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. It is located in

Agargaon Agargaon is an administrative neighbourhood in the Bangladeshi city of Dhaka. Education Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Government Boys' High School and Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Government Girls' High School are public secondary schools, established in 1969 and ...

, 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

Connectivity

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provides shuttle bus service from the station to

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via

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and

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