3,500 low-cost units in Selangor yet to receive rebate

It has been clarified by Selangor Mentri besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim during the state assembly session in Shah Alam yesterday that total of 3,500 low-cost units in 14 low-cost apartment areas in Selangor have yet to receive rebates in the form of free water. This was due to a lack of valid building management in the low-cost apartment, or the building management’s refusal to commit to overseeing the distribution of the water rebate to the residents he added.

Lau Weng San (PR-Kampung Tunku) further question on the number of low-cost housing units which had received the free 20 cubic metres, as well as the number of those who had not received this benefit and what were the causes. He also asked whether water rebate programme would be extended to affordable housing apartments.

Khalid said that the rebates have been awarded to 61,215 houses at 216 low-cost apartment areas which are still using bulk meters and clarified that state government had determined that the policy of free water rebates for non-low cost apartments would be given automatically through the migration from bulk water meters to individual meters.

Meanwhile, Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad (PR-Seri Setia) enquired on the number of low-cost apartments which had undergone refurbishment through the state government’s Ceria scheme for low-cost housing.

In reply, Abdul Khalid said the Ceria scheme was executed in phases, and altogether 71 buildings had been refurbished at a cost of RM9.7mil.