MIRI: The Sarawak government has approved a RM66 million allocation to implement electricity supply in Sibuti from 2009 to 2014.
“There
are still many other rural areas that need them. The effort to provide
electricity is a continuous effort,” Second Minister of Resource
Planning and Environment Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan said during a
leader-meet-the-people session at Rh Duat Kalom, Sungai Kelintang,
Sibuti on Tuesday.
Awg Tengah cited the example of 58-door
longhouse Rh Duat Kalom that was allocated RM1.8 million for its rural
electrification project.
A similar amount was given to the longhouse for its clean water supply project.
Such efforts prove that BN has not neglected rural areas in Sarawak.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has given huge allocations to Sarawak in the last four years.
From 2008 to early this year, Sarawak received more than RM32 billion for infrastructure from the federal and state governments.
Within
the three-year period of implementation under the National Key Result
Areas (NKRA), Najib gave RM1.7 billion to provide rural electricity
supply in Sarawak.
A similar amount was given to the state for rural water supply projects and RM2.5 billion for roads.
Such
financial support from the federal government enables the state
government to implement electricity, water supply and road projects in
rural areas.
On the slow provision of basic infrastructure, he
asked for understanding from the rural folk, saying they should not
doubt BN’s credibility in delivering its promises.
“The federal
government has given us huge allocations to support basic infrastructure
in rural areas but Sarawak is a huge state. The allocation has to be
distributed according to priority.”
Also present were State
Legislative Assembly Speaker Datuk Amar Mohd Asfia Awang Nassar, Sibuti
BN incumbent Ahmad Lai Bujang; Assistant Minister of Early Childhood
Education Rosey Yunus, Lambir assemblyman Ripin Lamat and longhouse
chief Duat Kalom.
(Source: The Borneo Post)
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