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Actual SMS responses from Minister of Works, Samy Vellu
Posted by sripetaling.net in News & Developments, Residents Actions on August 10th, 2005
Malaysian Minister of Works, Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu
Actual SMS reply from Minister of Works when Member of Parliament, YB Teresa Kok attempted to seek an opportunity for residents to meet the Minister, Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu.
“YB Theresa no one can stop this RM 1.3 billion project The road is within our ROW. Any ATTEMPT to stop work means heavy Compensation..Sorry. Samyvellu” - Short Message Service reply on Aug 8, 2005
Resident’s Dilemma - Residents are not capable of taking legal action against Govt as ‘Heavy Compensation’ is involved.
“YB Theresa The Sri Petaling residents objection overruled. The Government is compelled to build the road on land acquired by the Govt paying several hundred millions ringgit.That project is important to ease the traffic in KL/Seremaan Highway. samyvellu” - Short Message Service reply on Aug 7, 2005
Resident’s Dilemma - The Govt ‘FORGOT’ to acquire adequate land in Sri Petaling which was AVAILABLE when the project was approved in 1997. In year 2000, available land was developed into middle class housing. Unsuspecting buyers bought houses and now victims of a federal Govt project!
“YB Theresa This project is already there before the Housing project. This is neither a new acquisition nor a new project. The government has paid heavy compensation to do this alternate protocol dedicated highway. No further delay or meeting with anyone will be allowed. The job will go on Sorryi Samyvellu.” - Short Message Service reply on Aug 8, 2005
Resident’s Dilemma - Malaysian Govt knew about the planned housing project. They also know about the inadequate width for the elevated highway but DID NOTHING to acquire available land then. Unsuspecting buyers bought houses built on the then ‘available KL-Putrajaya Highway land’.
Why didn’t the Govt acquire adequate land when it was available?
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Random Pictures
Highway Key Facts
26KM stretches from Kampung Pandan to Putrajaya
consession signed on 22 Oct 1997
adequate land was available then
resident wrote letter to LLM to advice them to ensure adequate buffer zone since there is land (1997)
project was shelved due to economic crisis
DBKL approved housing project when they should have reserved the land for highway
houses built and sold to unsuspecting buyers
land was 'lost' in the process due to authorities blunder
project is bulldozed through despite protest for safety
project is in breach of their own guidelinesIsn't it ironic?
LLM, DBKL, DOE say they are not aware about the sheer proximity of the highway to the homes!
A resident has written to the authorities way back in 1997 to realign the Right Of Way of the highway to utilize the undeveloped Zone N. [click here to see the letter and how it fell on deaf ears of the authorities]
The developer of Zone N (Petaling Garden Berhad) managed to obtain approval to build houses along a path of designated federal highway. How can that be?