“I’ve been to places that I’ve never been to before and which are very rural,” Sivarasa says of his past five months as deputy minister. Also present is the Rural and Regional Development Ministry’s Chief Secretary Datuk Dr Ahmad Jailani Muhamed Yunus (left). This is particularly true in Sabah and Sarawak with their huge expanses of land that dwarf the small population. Given the limited resources we have, if you’re going to do that, it’s going to take 30, 40 years to deliver power to all of rural Sarawak or Sabah. “So I think now – and the (Rural Development) Minister (Datuk Seri Rina Harun) also agrees – we should be looking at alternatives,” he says.

Source: The Star December 30, 2018 00:37 UTC