What is hot in past one week? It is the landslides that struck Bukit Antarabangsa one week ago that we are talking about, this tragedy has taken it’s toll of 4 persons and one is still missing now.
This incident sounds so familiar; it happens quite a couple of times. One can not help asking why serious actions from Government were only taken now. Is it due to the mounting public outcry over last week tragedy? Or they are trying to make amends to something wrong they have done?
Our Government has, at the very least, frozen a few projects currently under construction at certain landslide-prone area to deter likely landslide or land erosion tragedy and evaluations / proper studies is now undertaken on these temporary frozen projects. On the other hand, our Government also plans to adopt certain Hill Slope Property building policies and guidelines effectively executed and duely implemented in Hong Kong so that we can get around further casualty in future.
But why all these only come now, that it is so “Just in Time”? Isn’t mandatory for the Government and the developers to carry out proper study before any construction works was kicked off? If this situation continues, we really need to enquire the possibility of achieving the “Wawasan 2020”. How can we get there if the people running the system lack that level of quality to ensure that things are on track? If our country can not assure its people of their shelter, we really wonder on what earth we are going to ask our people to achieve the much ambitious “Wawasan 2020”. It is same as the water issue, many know that the quality of the water here is horrendous and one knows the importance of water to one’s health. If the water is not clean, how do you expect our people to stay healthy to be competitive?
I think I have to repeat what American Presidents like to say but with slight changes : God Bless Malaysia.
p/s: the picture was googled out somewhere from the Internet. Not taken by me.
This incident sounds so familiar; it happens quite a couple of times. One can not help asking why serious actions from Government were only taken now. Is it due to the mounting public outcry over last week tragedy? Or they are trying to make amends to something wrong they have done?
Our Government has, at the very least, frozen a few projects currently under construction at certain landslide-prone area to deter likely landslide or land erosion tragedy and evaluations / proper studies is now undertaken on these temporary frozen projects. On the other hand, our Government also plans to adopt certain Hill Slope Property building policies and guidelines effectively executed and duely implemented in Hong Kong so that we can get around further casualty in future.
But why all these only come now, that it is so “Just in Time”? Isn’t mandatory for the Government and the developers to carry out proper study before any construction works was kicked off? If this situation continues, we really need to enquire the possibility of achieving the “Wawasan 2020”. How can we get there if the people running the system lack that level of quality to ensure that things are on track? If our country can not assure its people of their shelter, we really wonder on what earth we are going to ask our people to achieve the much ambitious “Wawasan 2020”. It is same as the water issue, many know that the quality of the water here is horrendous and one knows the importance of water to one’s health. If the water is not clean, how do you expect our people to stay healthy to be competitive?
I think I have to repeat what American Presidents like to say but with slight changes : God Bless Malaysia.
p/s: the picture was googled out somewhere from the Internet. Not taken by me.
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