KUALA LUMPUR: Local authorities should be financially independent before election of councillors can be carried out, said Public Accounts Committee chairman Datuk Shahrir Abdul Samad.
He said the local authorities now depended on Federal grants or funding from the Housing and Local Government Ministry for certain projects.
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