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Rawang residents cry for help
31/12/2008 NST K. Harinderan
Rawang residents meet up with the authorities for a three-hour dialogue
session to air their grievances.
SELAYANG: Public safety, the non-issuance of land titles and infrastructure
problems were the main topics of discussion at a recent dialogue between
residents of Bukit Rawang Jaya and their assemblyman, local councillor and
the police.
Over 150 residents from the housing development in Rawang attended the
three-hour session which saw many residents raising issues to seek
resolution or answers from the authorities on various problems.
The event was organised by the Bukit Rawang Jaya Residents' Association,
which is one of the first RAs to be registered in Rawang since July this
year.
The panel members comprised Rawang assemblyman Gan Pei Nei, Zone 18 Selayang
councillor Tan Hui Chuan, Rawang police station head Chief Inspector Ramzi
Mahmuddin and the RA's chairman M. Ramuseren.
To a complaint by a resident, who only wanted to be known as Keng, that
after residing at the housing scheme for about 20 years, he had yet to
obtain the land title to his home, Gan said more than 70 per cent of land
owners there were in the same predicament.
"This is due to the fact that the previous developer of the housing scheme
had filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11. The matter is now with the state
authorities.
"The plans to subdivide the individual lots were not processed at the time
as the company had run out of funds and only a portion of the home owners
held titles to their properties."
Gan added that some committee members had approached her on the matter and
she had met with the Selangor State Insolvency Department four times.
She said she was informed that the original plans seemed to overlap across
many lot boundaries in the scheme and this problem had to be ironed out
first before any titles were issued.
The department had also informed her that some of the development plans were
lost and had to be recovered from various other authorities like the Gombak
land office, thus causing further delay.
Bukit Rawang Jaya Flats resident David Lim raised the issue of strata titles
not being received by the flat owners.
Gan said the strata titles was entangled with the problem faced by the other
homeowners and advised the flat owners to retain all receipts of tenancy for
verification in future.
Mohd Jeffry Cheong raised the question of the rising crime rate in the area
as many residents had been victims of snatch thefts and house break-ins.
Keng said his home was broken into twice in the span of a month.
Ramzi said the crime rate in the area had seen a reduction in the past year.
In 2007, there were 77 cases of motorcycle thefts, house break-ins and
snatch thefts, but the number had dropped to 53 this year.
Ramzi advised the residents to be more vigilant and to tip-off the police
upon witnessing any dubious activities.
He also said he had submitted a proposal for a community police station to
be located at the housing scheme.
To a question raised by A. Padma on the failure of night market operators to
clean up the site after themselves, Tan said the problem would be solved as
the council would take over all operations of night markets from Jan 1.
The council will then be responsible for the clean-up and rubbish
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