Bagan Datuk will have a resort soon — DPM

BAGAN DATUK: Bagan Datuk will have a new landmark with the construction of a resort which is expected to be ready by 2020, said Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

He said Bagan Datuk would serve as the most advanced district in Perak as a tribute to the Sultan of Perak Sultan Nazrin Shah who had declared Bagan Datuk as the state’s 12th district in January 2017.

Ahmad Zahid said the construction of Teedo Resort near the Bagan Datuk town at a cost of about RM75 million, would not use the government’s money but it would be funded by a private company, Al-Falah Foundation and would be operated by Nour Hotel & Resorts.

“For your information, the construction of this hotel will be done without a single sen of the government money, even the land and infrastructure will be financed 100 per cent by the private sector. When the private sector is involved in the construction and management of the hotel with several commercial premises to be built, it is in line with the goal to making Bagan Datuk as a tourist destination,” he said when launching the Teedo Resort ground-breaking ceremony here yesterday.

Also present were Ahmad Zahid’s wife Datin Seri Hamidah Khamis and their daughter, Datuk Nurulhidayah, who is Nour Hotel & Resorts managing director.

It is understood that the resort will house a commercial zone, shopping centre, restaurants, theme park and Maahad Tahfiz Al-Ridzuan, with a total gross development cost of about RM250 million on a 60-hectare land.

Ahmad Zahid, who is an MP for Bagan Datuk in the 13th Parliament, said public investment needed to be tied up with private investment to develop an area, as well as to support and spur the development that had been planned by the government. — Bernama