KUALA TERENGGANU, July 19 (Bernama) -- Part of the oil royalty from the federal government will be allocated soon for more development projects in and around the state capital, also known as the Heritage Waterfront City.
Menteri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said said when the money had been received, the initial step taken would be to acquire land in the Layang and Tanjung areas up to the Astaka Supermarket.
"The land acquisition will cost hundreds of millions of ringgit due to the steep price of land in the areas as they are in the city centre," he told reporters at an event with the people in Kampung Alor Limbat, here, Sunday.
Ahmad said the state government would further develop Kuala Terengganu with more commercial areas where 50 per cent of the shoplots would be sold and the rest rented out to bumiputera traders.
He said Kuala Terengganu would also have more of other facilities as it was rapidly developing like other cities and major towns in the country.
On the state government's aid programme to help students with sight problem, Ahmad said so far 20 students had follow-up treatment at the Tun Hussein Eye Hospital in Petaling Jaya.
He said there were also those who required eye surgery by specialists overseas.
On another development, Ahmad said he was confident that Barisan Nasional could wrest back the Bukit Payung state seat and Marang parliamentary seat in the next general election.
He said this was based on the people's positive response to the programmes organised by the state government and the hard work put in by the Umno machinery itself.
The two seats were won by PAS in the last general election in 2008.
-- BERNAMA
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