Housing Ministry exceeds targets with RM737mil spent as of JulyPUTRAJAYA: The Housing and Local Government Ministry is on track with its first half-year review, achieving 85% of its planned initiatives for the year. Minister Nga Kor Ming said the ministry has successfully implemented 10 of 12 planned initiatives and spent RM737.9mil as of July 30. However, other initiatives, such as upgrading dilapidated public markets, developing Chinese New Village projects, maintaining non-Muslim places of worship and the MyKiosk@KPKT programme, are still in progress. The next four Bills will seek to amend the Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Act 1966, Fire Services Act 1988, Local Government Act 1976, and Town and Country Planning Act 1990. He said the Housing Development Act amendments would specifically address abandoned projects.
