{"id":22622,"date":"2018-08-03T22:21:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T14:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=22622"},"modified":"2018-08-04T09:31:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T01:31:47","slug":"dr-sim-more-federal-allocation-for-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=22622","title":{"rendered":"Dr Sim: more federal allocation for development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for Local government and Housing, Datuk Dr. Sim Kui\u00a0Hian said he has to fight for more allocation from the Federal government to ensure that development is done for Sarawak as the RM5 million of the Rural\u00a0Transformation Projects 2018 from his ministerial allocation is not\u00a0enough to cover all\u00a0the infrastructure works needed to do done in Batu Kawa.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to media this morning at his Batu Kawa Sarawak United\u00a0Peoples&#8217; Party (SUPP) branch Dr. Sim pointed out that his intention\u00a0was to get more funds to develop Sarawak by sourcing from other<br \/>\nallocations provided from Federal which included MARRIS where a total\u00a0of RM7.6 million was used for resurfacing roads all over the state\u00a0last year.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to task his critics, Dr. Sim said the whole idea was to uplift\u00a0and improve the standard of living for fellow Sarawakians thus\u00a0sourcing for funds outside of his RM5 million allocated will also\u00a0helped to improve roads, drains among other basic enmities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If anyone were to care for Sarawakians\u2019 well-being, then source for\u00a0funds from Federal and not to make noise only. We want to see Sarawak\u00a0grow for the better. I, on my part will continue to do my best for the\u00a0Sarawakians&#8217; welfare,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Citing an example, he said the Drainage Irrigation Department (DID)\u00a0would need RM 60 million to solve all the flood problems in Batu Kawa\u00a0so with his amount of allocation, he cannot do much. Last year&#8217;s\u00a0allocation included RM400 million for electricity, RM200 million for\u00a0water, also from Federal.<\/p>\n<p>He said that for his RTP projects this year, there were five\u00a0halls constructed, a futsal, 8 drainage and culverts, upgrading works\u00a0for two surau, a 1-beam bridge, 7 upgrading roads and one water piping\u00a0upgrading roads.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the projects are still on-going, he said.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_5623.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22623\" alt=\"IMG_5623\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_5623-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_5623-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_5623.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_5633.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22624\" alt=\"IMG_5633\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_5633-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_5633-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_5633.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for Local government and Housing, Datuk Dr. Sim Kui\u00a0Hian said he has to fight for more allocation from the Federal government to ensure that development is done for Sarawak as the RM5 million of the Rural\u00a0Transformation Projects 2018 from his ministerial allocation is not\u00a0enough to cover all\u00a0the infrastructure works needed to do done in Batu Kawa. Speaking to media this morning at his Batu Kawa Sarawak United\u00a0Peoples&#8217; Party (SUPP) branch Dr. Sim pointed out that his intention\u00a0was to get more funds to develop Sarawak by sourcing from other allocations<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=22622\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22622"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22625,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22622\/revisions\/22625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}