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Inspectorate To Monitor
Housing Delivery System
24/04/2007 Bernama
PETALING JAYA, April 24 (Bernama) -- The Housing and Local Government
Ministry is setting up an inspectorate unit to monitor the implementation of
the improvements to the government's delivery system in the housing sector.
"I will personally oversee how this inspectorate works," said Minister Datuk
Seri Ong Ka Ting, adding that a high-ranking officer will be sought to head
it.
In his keynote address at the Roadshow on Improving the Housing Delivery
System here today, organised by REHDA Institute, he said the ministry will
also establish "some form of computerised networking" with the developers.
He urged developers to provide feedback regarding their applications for
proposed projects and inform his ministry about the status of their
projects.
"Anything new is bound to have some teething problems," he noted, referring
to the measures to reduce bureaucracy at the local authorities level
announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on April 13.
The measures include a one-stop processing centre, replacing the Certificate
of Fitness with a Certificate of Compliance and Completion, and promoting
the build-then-sell concept for housing projects.
Ong stressed that there is no point talking about the system in the past.
"It's no use to cry over spilt milk. It is not the time to blame anybody
anymore," he said, noting that in the past there had been problems in the
public delivery system for the housing sector.
The issue is not about why it cannot be done anymore, rather how to make the
new system work, Ong said.
Meanwhile, the director-general of the Ministry's Town and Country Planning
Department, Peninsular Malaysia, Datuk Mohd Fadzil Mohd Khir, said the
inspectorate unit will be tasked with getting feedback from the various
parties involved as well as the public and evaluate how the system can be
made better and in which areas.
It will also monitor in general the implementation of the various local
government policies, including the creation of one-stop processing centres
by the local government authorities.
The unit will also provide advisory and technical services, and this will
include visits to local government authorities which need assistance in
setting up and managing the one-stop centres.
Other responsibilities are analysing the quarterly feedback on the one-stop
centres and recommending improvements to the concept.
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