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Dhaka Metro Rail opens its first line

On 28 December 2022 Hasina opened Dhaka Metro Rail’s first line, a completed urban-transport instrument. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Industrial-Policy Activism.

Sources: [1][2]

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On 28 December 2022 Hasina opened Dhaka Metro Rail’s first line, a completed urban-transport instrument.

Context

DMTCL operates. JICA co-financed. She did not drive the train. A metro opening is still a dated household-access instrument.

Padma 2022 is a neighbouring same-year megaproject row. Reserves 2022 is a neighbouring fiscal-stress row.

Bangladesh’s prime minister chairs the cabinet and can order security forces under statute. She does not write an Indian extradition order, a UN body-count as if it were a gazette, a 2026 Tarique Rahman cabinet minute, or an ICJ merits judgment. She fled on 5 August 2024; as of August 2026 she is in India, not in office. Country is Bangladesh, not Pakistan. A RAB warrant is not a completed finding that every disappeared person was thereby a militant. Allegation of a stolen 2018 count is stored as a contested election, not as a completed steal. A 2026 Delhi audio is not a return.

Why it matters

The path is household purchasing power and industrial policy: a completed metro line can cut some urban time-and-cost, with lag.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Sheikh Hasina

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.45 · verified

    She opened it. DMTCL operates. JICA co-financed. Riders paid fares.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Reuters — Bangladesh opens Dhaka's first metro rail lineReuters · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.DMTCL — Dhaka Metro Rail Line 6 opening, 28 December 2022Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

Established: a 28 December 2022 Dhaka Metro opening under her, independently reported.

Not established: that congestion ended, or a unique later wage coefficient from the first ride.

DMTCL operates. JICA co-financed. Riders paid fares.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Dhaka Metro Rail opens its first line, not a later speech about Dhaka Metro Rail opens its first line.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to She opened it. DMTCL operates. JICA co-financed. Riders paid fares. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorSheikh Hasina
  2. contributed toFactDhaka Metro Rail opens its first line
  3. strengthensDrivers (2)Industrial-Policy Activism

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Factrail. (2026). Dhaka Metro Rail opens its first line. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/bd-hasina-metro-2022

https://factrail.ai/facts/bd-hasina-metro-2022

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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