KUALA Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) has allocated RM28.12mil for upgrading and maintenance works at Batu Muda People’s Housing Programme (PPR), some of which have been completed.
The seven-block flats have 2,132 units and more than 10,500 residents.
Among the completed work was the replacement of 21 lifts at a cost of RM11.69mil.
DBKL in a social media post said the lift replacement was completed in October last year and was still within the defects liability period.
Road resurfacing costing RM1.46mil and repairs to a children’s playground costing RM278,000 have also been completed.
Further work is scheduled to begin this month, with RM5.6mil allocated for the replacement of sub-main electrical cables.
DBKL said the cables run from electricity meters to the distribution boards of individual units.
Another RM9.1mil is allotted for the repainting of buildings next year.
DBKL added that PPR Batu Muda, which are almost two decades old, required continued maintenance as the buildings aged and residents’ requirements changed.
The maintenance works were highlighted during the nationwide Mega Cleaning programme and the Kuala Lumpur Federal Territory Fire Safety Carnival at PPR Batu Muda.
The programme, held in conjunction with Malaysia Clean-Up Day, included a community clean-up, environmental exhibitions, health screenings, recycling activities and fire safety programmes.
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Federal Territories) Hannah Yeoh, who was present at the event, in a social media post said cleanliness should become a continuous habit rather than something practised only during organised programmes.
“As long as Malaysians do not know how to maintain cleanliness, money will continue to be spent on cleaning operations, and we will not have enough funds for development.”
She said the funds for PPR Batu Muda was part of a RM300mil allocated this year for maintenance works at all 51 public housing (PA) and PPR schemes in Kuala Lumpur.
The allocation, she said, was intended to ensure maintenance was carried out systematically across the city’s public housing developments.
“We do not want maintenance to be carried out piecemeal or only when problems become serious.
“It needs to be planned, funding allocated and implemented comprehensively,” she said.
