ALL residents of Kg Kerinchi four-storey flats will be temporarily moved to Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) flats in three weeks to make way for redevelopment.
DBKL will also help them in the shifting process to the flats at Seri Cempaka and Kerinchi.
Federal Territories and Urban Wellbeing Minister Datuk Raja Nong Chik Zainal Abidin announced this during a mock key-handover ceremony at Kg Kerinchi Empat Tingkat in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday.
Citing Singapore’s flat redevelopment policy, Nong Chik said flats which were more than 10 years old were redeveloped to offer better facilities and enhance living condition of its people.
He said a redevelopment required only 75% of the people’s concensus and a project would carry on even if there were 25% protesters.
“But here in Malaysia we need 100% concensus and sometimes it may delay development processes in many areas due to a small group of residents. Perhaps, we should also look into our own policies pertaining this so it will be easier and faster for us to work on redevelopment programmes,” said Nong Chik, adding that 90% of the people at Kg.Kerinchi Empat Tingkat agreed to the redevelopment and temporary settlement.
He said 10% of the residents had doubts pertaining to the credibility of the developer. What they fear most is that the project would be abandoned.
“The residents should not worry because this is a redevelopment project.
“What we are doing is to re-develop these one-room and no-room flats into bigger homes, complete with facilities for the old and young. To do that, we need to temporarily relocate the residents.
“Some still do fear of project mismanagement and if the contractor goes bankrupt. I can’t be sure it won’t happen but the ministry and the DBKL will make sure that a good contractor, which will be chosen through an open tender, takes up the project,” he added.
However, Nong Chik promised the residents that should any mishap befall the project due to the contractor, the ministry would make the DBKL flats available for sale to them.
At the moment, the flats are not for sale. There are 480 households from the flat blocks.
“Hopefully the project will kick off by the end of the year or early next year as the government cannot leave the premises empty for long,” he said.
Also present were Lembah Pantai Wanita Umno chief Datuk Sharifah Aminah Syed Ahmad, Kg Kerinchi branch Umno chief Aziz Abdul Rahman and Adlan Lok from Kg. Kerinchi Empant Tingkat Umno branch.
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