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Jamuna Resort set to welcome tourists from home and abroad
1/23/2006
Jamuna Resort, the biggest-ever riverside retreat-cum-amusement centre in the country, is ready to welcome domestic and foreign tourists at the panoramic site of Jamuna Bridge, reports UNB.
The luxury resort is expected to open up a new chapter in flourishing tourism industry as the authorities have planned to turn it as a most attractive tourist spot in South Asia.
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia is expected to open the resort located on the eastern bank of river Jamuna and on the foot of Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge in Tangail in mid-March, officials said.
Developed in an area of 1,200 bighas of land, the resort has cozy living arrangement with 130 fully air-conditioned bedrooms and riverside picnic spot.
The recreation facilities for the holiday-makers include three tennis courts, swimming-pool, five motor-boats, conference room, dining facilities, helipad, museum bedecked with a rich collection presenting the biodiversity, open space and natural and man-made beauties of Bangladesh.
Housing and other infrastructure occupy only 130 bighas of land leaving the rest to offer to the visitors to have a breath of fresh air.
The resort authority, however, is contemplating investing Tk 2.5-3.0 billion to develop it as the richest amusement park and tourism centre of the country by year 2010.
Sources at the site said Jamuna Resort Limited (JRL) took the land on lease for 30 years from the Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge Authority (JMBA), an outfit of the Communications Ministry, in 1998.
The JRL, however, started the development work in 2004 after resolving some agreement-related complexities
The JRL in joint venture with a Nepalese company named Cinnovation developed the resort spending around Tk 300 million in the first phase.
Chairman of the JRL and former president of apex trade-body FBCCI Abdul Awal Mintoo told the news agency that on completion of the three-phase development work by 2010, the resort would become the biggest-ever riverside resort in the subcontinent.
He expressed the hope that the Jamuna resort would be able to meet the desire of the tourists of both home and abroad providing all kinds of international-standard amusement and tourism facilities.
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