Metro Rail passengers can buy multipurpose pass cards till 10pm today, MAN Siddique, managing director of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited, said today.

Sale of tickets at Uttara and Agargaon stations will resume from 8:00am tomorrow, he said after a review meeting in the morning.

Meanwhile, operating hours of Metro Rail will remain unchanged, he said.

MAN Siddique earlier told The Daily Star that the authorities at a review meeting will decide whether the operating hours of metro rail would be extended for today as a huge number of people queued at both Agargaon and Uttara North stations

A day after its inauguration, the country's first metro rail is now open for general passengers.

Initially, Metro rail services will be operated for four hours daily -- from 8:00am to 12:00pm.