\\\'Draft Metro Rail Bill 2014\\\' gets cabinet nod

The Cabinet on Monday approved in principle the draft of the ‘Metro Rail Bill 2014′ in a bid to give a legal framework to the overall activities, including operations, control and regulations, of the proposed Metro Rail Project. The approval was given at the regular weekly meeting of the cabinet held at the Bangladesh Secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. Briefing reporters after the meeting, Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said a Mass Rapid Transit Development Project (Line 6) is a priority project of the government and a public limited company, ‘Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited’ (DMTCL), has already been formed to operate the metro rail once the project is implemented. The DMTCL will be supervised by the Dhaka Transport Coordination Authority and the proposed law is being framed to give a legal framework to its overall operations, according to UNB.