Housing for families displaced by clinker plant to start soon

by Rintos Mail, reporters@theborneopost.com. Posted on March 21, 2014, Friday

KUCHING: The construction of new homes for the 20 families from Kampung Mambong affected by the clinker plant about 20 years ago is expected to take off in a few months time.

Public Health Assistant Minister Datuk Dr Jerip Susil said Syarikat Perumahan Negara Berhad (SPNB) would build the houses under the Rumah Mesra Rakyat (RMR) scheme.

However, given that the infrastructural costs, including piling, are not covered within the price of the RMR, the project could not take place until the basic infrastructures are in place.

Dr Jerip, who is Bengoh assemblyman and co-ordinator of the resettlement project, admitted that the resettlement of the 20 families from Kampung Mambong, at Mile 16 off Jalan Puncak Borneo, was long overdue.

He said the land clearing and levelling was done in 2009, but the resettlement committee wanted piling work to be done on the land that was formerly a swamp.

To implement the infrastructural work that includes piling we need funds. I have written to the State Development Office for some funds to enable us to implement the long overdue project.

Im expecting the funds to be given out either end of this month or in April. As soon as we get it, we will start to implement the infrastructural work.

Hopefully, construction will be in progress by end of this year, he said.

Asked if the temporary occupational licence (TOL) for every lot is ready, Dr Jerip said there shouldnt be any problem issuing it.

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