The services of metro rail in the capital will resume from August 25, said the authorities on Tuesday.

It was also decided that the trains would not stop at the damaged Mirpur 10 and Kazipara stations.

A press release, issued by the road transport and bridges ministry, on the day also said that the protesting metro rail employees joined their workplaces on Tuesday.

On the day, the newly appointed Road Transport and Highways Division senior secretary Md Ehsanul Haque visited metro rail’s Press Club station.

Earlier, the authorities closed down metro rail services for an indefinite period since July 20 amid the student protests.

On July 19, Mirpur 10 and Kazipra stations were vandalised by some people during the protests.

Meanwhile DMTCL’s employees from Grade 10 to Grade 20 were observing an all-out work abstention from August 6.

They demanded – same salary structure for all grades, arrears, promotion, facilities to become permanent, proper security at the workplace and end of all discrimination at the workplace.

Later a decision of resuming the metro rail services from August 17 was taken and announced at a meeting of the Advisory Council of the interim government held at the state guest house Jamuna on August 11.

But the authorities backtracked from the decision following the strike of the employees.