By William Isau
SIBU, April 17: Residents in Bukit Assek have been urged to keep an eye on a Rural Transformation Programme (RTP) project carried out in their area.
“I want residents to be my ‘supervisors’ as there are many RTP projects going on which I can’t always be on the site,” said Bukit Assek assemblyman Joseph Chieng today.
He said this at the handing over of a RM22,000 project to upgrade drainage including construction of a retaining wall (phase one) at Lane 5, Jalan Tong Sang.
Chieng said as ‘supervisors’, residents will monitor the work to ensure that projects are carried out according to contract specifications.
Taking the project at Lane 5, Jalan Tong Sang as an example, he said he had invited the residents from the seven houses concerned to “know of the project content and participate by being a supervisor.”
The project involves widening the narrow road by constructing a concrete retaining wall of about 15 metres long.
“The road is getting narrower due to the collapse of the road verge. Accidents have been happening here.The project looks small but it is big to them as they have been waiting for it for years,” Chieng said.
The first phase of the project involves widening the road of one-metre, piling, retaining wall construction and earth-filing costing RM22,000. The rest of RM80,000 for phase two of the project will be for the resurfacing of the road.
The whole project will take three months to complete. — DayakDaily
