Wild flower town Rawang has bloomed

IT seems so long ago now but there was a time when my school holidays were spent in Rawang in a row of staff quarters occupied by employees of a cement factory there. Picking up wild flowers, or some creepers, long walks or just loitering around the railway tracks were the things that children do years ago in small towns. There were no supermarkets or malls in Rawang then.

Today, Rawang has changed tremendously. The town centre is a lot busier with a bus station in the middle of town. Jaya Jusco and Tesco supermarkets are there. The presence of these brands does not necessarily mean that development has arrived. While there has been development, on a broader scale, their presence signifies that the purchasing power of the community has increased. And this can be seen in the take-up rates of the various projects there today.