Over 500 projects slated for constituency
LUNDU: Over 500 projects costing up to RM1bil have been approved for the Tanjong Datu constituency and the state will ensure that everything is delivered on schedule.
The projects, from minor rural programmes to infrastructure development, are currently at various stages of implementation.
Among them are the road network connecting Telok Melano and Sematan, the building of the Centre of Technical Excellence, a Mara institute as well as upgrading of schools and other amenities across Lundu and Sematan.
Assistant Minister for Workforce Training and Development Datuk Len Talif Salleh said that the approved funds also catered for improving public utilities such as treated water supply.
Most of the projects had been scheduled for completion within six months to three years.
“Project coordination is most important so that implementation will be smooth and on schedule,” he said when met at Barisan Nasional’s by-election operations centre here yesterday.
Sarawak Barisan Nasional Backbenchers Club chairman Abdullah Saidol said the projects had been in the planning stage, irre- spective of whether there was a by-election in the area.
The Semop assemblyman said that as the chief minister, Tan Sri Adenan Satem would have had less time to personally tell his constituents of projects in store in their area.
Adenan, who was also the Tanjong Datu assemblyman, died on Jan 11.
In this respect, Abdullah said the notion that there would not be any projects in Tanjong Datu, if there was no by-election, was inaccurate.
Abdullah assured the people that all the programmes and projects planned in Lundu and Sematan would continue under the new Sarawak Chief Minister Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg.