By Olivia Miwil
olivia@nst.com.my
Picture courtesy of Sabah Chief Minister's office
KOTA KINABALU: Saba government endorsed the set up of the State Public-Private Partnership and Concession Project Management Committee.
Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor said the new committee would replace the State Privatisation Committee formed in 1991.
“The new committee would look at three categories of projects compared to the previous committee, which only assessed projects from the privatisation perspective,” he said in a statement after chairing the first Chief Minister’s Department post-cabinet meeting at Menara Kinabalu here.
Hajiji helms the state government for the second term after the 17th Sabah General Election concluded two months ago.
Hajiji added that for now any public-private project proposal would be initiated by the respective ministries and referred to the new committee’s technical committee chaired by the State Economic Planning Unit.
Once the project is deemed viable, it would be brought to the Main Committee chaired by the State Secretary, for further scrutiny before being tabled for final approval by the Cabinet.
Hajiji said that it is to ensure, the accuracy of the project scope involving the State
Government and the private sector, such as water and road concession or housing projects, he said.
"All joint ventures involving the State must now undergo this committee's review process," he said.
Meanwhile, for the people's housing dubbed Rumah Mesra SMJ, the state cabinet has
also approved additional criteria and improvements for the initiative.
He said the cost for one unit of the SMJ house with pillars has been raised to RM95,000, and the cost for the SMJ house without pillars is now RM85,000 per unit.
The increase was to cater for additional costs such as building material transportation, land
reclamation at the house site and installation of electric poles and water pipes.
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