# Dhaka Metro Rail opens its first line

Date: 2022

## The fact

On 28 December 2022 [Hasina](/people/sheikh-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.

## Evidence and sources

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

## Significance

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

## What is established and what is not

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.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

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. Dhaka Metro Rail opens its first line on 2022-12-28 is not a licence to treat every later Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Dhaka Metro Rail opens its first line into a personality. 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.

## People

- Sheikh Hasina: https://factrail.ai/people/sheikh-hasina

## Drivers

- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism
- Household Purchasing Power: https://factrail.ai/drivers/household-purchasing-power

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/bangladesh-hasina-opens-dhaka-metro-rail-2022-12-28/
- https://www.dmtcl.gov.bd/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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