PETALING JAYA: Sabah and Sarawak will be the main targeted areas to upgrade rural basic infrastructures under the National Key Result Areas (NKRAs) as there are many undeveloped rural areas.
Rural and Regional Development Minister Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal is the lead minister for the upgrading infrastructure in the rural and interior regions.
Reducing the delay in the delivery of basic infrastructure projects by 50 per cent is also one of the targets under the NKRAs, said Rural Basic Infrastructure (RBI) NKRA Lab leader Ahmad Zubir Abdullah Ghani.
He said the team had identified such delay as the key problem which could cause delay in implementing projects to improve basic infrastructure.
“For example, land acquisition takes almost two years to complete and we are aiming to reduce the process of acquisition by 50 per cent,” he told Bernama after the launching of Government Transformation Programme (GTP) Open Day here yesterday.
Meanwhile, RBI Lab Principle Assistant Secretary Ramdan Baba said, the team aimed to improve the four basic areas of infrastructure including road, housing, electricity and water supply.
“We are aiming at building 7,000km of roads and 50,000 new houses at rural areas in three years, and complete 140,000 households in rural areas with electricity supply and 360,000 households with water supply,” he said during a presentation session by the RBI Lab here.
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