KUALA LUMPUR 23 April - Kementerian Kerja Raya memperuntukkan RM41.5 juta untuk membaik pulih dan menaik taraf 40 buah Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Tamil (SJKT) bantuan modal di seluruh negara.

Menteri Kerja Raya, Datuk Ir. Mohd. Zin Mohamed (gambar) berkata, projek yang bakal dilaksanakan di bawah Rancangan Malaysia Kesembilan (RMK-9) itu melibatkan 11 sekolah di Selangor dan masing-masing dua di Perak serta Johor. 

Menurutnya, kerja bagi melaksanakan projek tersebut diagihkan kepada kontraktor kelas B, C, D, E dan F.

FORTY Tamil schools will be renovated and upgraded at a cost of RM 41.5 million.

Work Minister Datuk Mohd Zin Mohamed said RM30 milion will be allocated by the Finance Ministry while RM11.5   million will be from the Education Ministry.

"Work will begin in July,"he said after chairing the ministry's post-Cabinet meeting in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR: Kerja membaik pulih secara besar-besaran dan komprehensif ke atas Bangunan Parlimen yang sudah berusia 45 tahun dijangka bermula Jun ini berikutan kerja membaiki kebocoran bumbung sudah selesai sepenuhnya, kata Menteri Kerja Raya, Datuk Mohd Zin Mohamed. 

Beliau berkata, tempoh kira-kira tiga minggu sewaktu rehat persidangan Dewan Rakyat pada bulan berkenaan adalah sesuai untuk merangka dan memulakan kerja membaik pulih keseluruhan bangunan termasuk di blok menara. 

KUALA TERENGGANU 23 April - Keputusan kerajaan untuk mengkaji semula pelaksanaan projek di bawah Rancangan Malaysia Kesembilan (RMK-9) khususnya yang bertaraf mega adalah langkah proaktif bagi mengelakkan negara menanggung beban kewangan yang lebih parah.

Presiden Kesatuan Kontraktor Melayu Malaysia, Senator Datuk Roslan Awang Chik berkata, langkah tersebut amat bijak kerana sekiranya diteruskan kesannya bukan sahaja dihadapi negara malah turut menjejaskan kehidupan rakyat.

KAJANG - "Kami tetap akan 'berkampung' di sini sehingga pihak berwajib menyelesaikan masalah kami."

Demikian nekad penduduk Taman Bukit Mahkota di sini yang berkumpul semula selepas mengetahui syarikat konsesi Grand Saga Sdn. Bhd. berhasrat menutup kembali laluan tersebut.

Malah mereka mendirikan khemah bagi memastikan pemantauan dapat dilakukan setiap masa sehingga masalah itu ada jalan penyelesaiannya.

Menurut seorang penduduk, Abdul Latif Sabur, 72, (gambar) rata-rata yang berkumpul di situ sebagai tanda menyokong tindakan membuka semula jalan alternatif itu.

KUALA LUMPUR: The roof over Parliament House has finally been repaired. 

And the new Works Minister, Datuk Mohd Zin Mohamed, said the Public Works Department had given a guarantee there would be no more leaks.

"I have overseen the work and received the technical report and I am satisfied with it," he said after a visit.

He had directed the Parliament House's building management and the PWD to check the building and see if there were other weaknesses that needed to be rectified.

KUALA LUMPUR: Parliament House is all set for the coming sitting where some 222 MPs will be sworn in.

For the past few days, Works Minister Datuk Mohd Zin Mohamed and Information Minister Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek have been inspecting the facilities to ensure that everything is in order.

Mohd Zin visited the ministers' new cubicles and media centre and the rooftop area which had been repaired following leaks.

KUALA LUMPUR: Kerja membaik pulih secara besar-besaran dan komprehensif ke atas Bangunan Parlimen yang sudah berusia 45 tahun dijangka bermula Jun ini berikutan kerja membaiki kebocoran bumbung sudah selesai sepenuhnya, kata Menteri Kerja Raya, Datuk Mohd Zin Mohamed. 

Beliau berkata, tempoh kira-kira tiga minggu sewaktu rehat persidangan Dewan Rakyat pada bulan berkenaan adalah sesuai untuk merangka dan memulakan kerja membaik pulih keseluruhan bangunan termasuk di blok menara. 

PETALING JAYA: The construction industry will soon have its first standard system of inspection of new and existing buildings, once the Architect Centre Sdn Bhd is launched on May 8.

The Malaysian Institute of Architects (PAM) said the standard would be especially useful in relation to discovery of visible defects, appraisal of quality of workmanship and the dissemination of advice to rectify such defects.

IN a new development to the Bandar Mahkota Cheras access road issue, Cheras-Kajang Highway concessionaire Grand Saga Sdn Bhd has issued a warning letter to the company that owns the heavy machinery used in dismantling the barricade.

Residents of the township brought down the barricade blocking their toll-free access to the highway on Monday after mounting frustration against Grand Saga for closing the road in 2005.

The highway concessionaire issued the letter to Wing Sing Tractor Work through a legal firm based in Kuala Lumpur.