Developer gets Bohol pond upgrade job

A DEVELOPER has been awarded the tender to upgrade the Bohol flood retention pond.

The developer has also received approval to develop the area adjacent to the land reserved for the retention pond.

Federal Territories Land and Mines Office (land registration sector) deputy director Mohd Firdaus Ibaruslan stressed that the arrangement is not a land swap deal.

“Besides forking out RM40mil to upgrade the pond, the developer still needs to pay RM41.7mil for the premium 10.5ha land it will be developing.

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“The developer is finalising details for the pond upgrade, expected to be completed in a month.

“The construction of the upgrade will take five months,” he added during a media briefing in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday (May 16).

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Federal Territories) Dr Zaliha Mustafa said the pond upgrade is needed to address flash floods in the area.

“It will also help to provide affordable housing such as Rumawip and Madani housing to the people,” she said during the press conference held after the media briefing.

StarMetro reported on April 29 that new development plans had emerged at Kuala Lumpur’s second-largest flood retention pond.

This was nearly a year after the Federal Government stopped a similar proposal by the previous administration to allocate the land to a private developer.

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The Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur Lands and Mines Office issued a tender notice at the beginning of the year, calling for bids to design and upgrade the 63.45ha Bohol flood retention pond in Seputeh for alienation under Section 76 of the National Land Code.

It invited companies to submit bids for the project to facilitate the construction of a massive housing project.

Six plots of land totalling 10.85ha are being alienated on Lot 102996 for a development project consisting of Federal Territories Affordable Housing Project (Rumawip), residential condominium and Madani housing.

The Attorney General’s Chambers published a notice in the Federal Government Gazette on May 8 announcing the proposed revocation of the land reservation for public purposes under Section 64 (2) of the National Land Code for Lot 35309 measuring 24.79ha.