The Dhaka–Narayanganj AC Bus is a inter-city bus service connecting Dhaka and Narayanganj. The service is operated by the Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) and was launched in 2011.

Before 2005 there was a bus transport service between Dhaka and Narayanganj which was closed later. Two organizations namely Citizen Committee and Jatri Adhikar Forum have been agitating for a long time demanding the re-operation of the bus.^[1] On 22 June 2011, after the citizen committee met the chairman of BRTC, vice-chairman of the civic committee claimed that BRTC had promised to start bus transport services on the promised route.^[2] Buses were brought to the central depot of Narayanganj on 12 July to start the bus service. Then on 9 August 2011, this bus transport service was inaugurated.^[1] In 2017, another bus service called Shitol Paribahan of politician Shamim Osman was launched on the same route and the bus service stopped.^[3] On 22 May 2019, this bus transport service was restarted in Gulistan in the presence of Obaidul Quader, Road Transport and Bridges Minister.^[4] A few days after the resumption of the service, there were complaints that some transport workers were obstructing the installation of ticket sales counters of BRTC buses in Narayanganj.^[5] In 2021, all bus services in Narayanganj were stopped due to the strike called by transport workers to protest against the increase in fuel prices, but BRTC AC buses to Dhaka were running. As a result, the autorickshaws there could not establish a monopoly of higher fares.^[6] Due to the increase in fuel prices, the authority increased the ticket price to ৳40, which was reduced to ৳38 in view of the demands of the passengers.^[7]

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