Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity urged the authorities concerned to cut per km fare by 50 per cent and the minimum fare reasonable as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate the country’s first-ever metro rail service on December 28.

It said that fixing the metro rail fare twice the rate of the city bus services is illogical and anti-people, reports UNB.

He said that Dhaka and India's Kolkata cities are quite similar in almost all indicators considering the socio-economic condition, per capita income, and GDP.

But the fare per kilometre of Dhaka Metrorail will be two times higher and the total fare will be four times higher compared to Kolkata Metrorail, he said.

Mozammel also compared the metro rail fare with several countries including Pakistan.

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