UMNO perlu pulih kredibiliti

KUALA LUMPUR 15 Mei – UMNO akan ditolak oleh rakyat pada Pilihan Raya Umum ke-13 akan datang sekiranya barisan kepimpinan serta ahli-ahlinya itu gagal memulihkan semula kredibiliti parti tersebut di mata masyarakat.

Naib Presiden UMNO, Datuk Seri Dr. Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (gambar) berkata, keadaan parti boleh menjadi semakin parah jika persepsi negatif serta semangat kebencian yang ditanam oleh pihak pembangkang selama ini gagal diurus dengan baik oleh pemimpin dan ahli UMNO.

Pada masa sama beliau turut mengingatkan kepada semua pemimpin dan ahli UMNO supaya tidak mengetepikan Islam dalam perjuangan kerana tindakan itu boleh mengakibatkan kenikmatan yang dikecapi akan dicabut oleh Allah SWT.

“Realitinya UMNO sekarang bukan berada di dalam zon selesa berbanding sebelum ini berikutan berlaku perubahan kepada landskap politik negara. Dahulu jika kita letak songkok di Lembah Pantai pun, calon BN atau UMNO boleh menang tetapi sekarang ia tidak akan berlaku.

“Kita harus ingat pandangan masyarakat kepada UMNO akan berakhir sekiranya kita lambat berubah. Mahu tidak mahu UMNO perlu berubah, perlu melalui proses transformasi supaya UMNO terus relevan,” katanya.

Beliau berkata demikian ketika berucap merasmikan Mesyuarat Perwakilan UMNO Bahagian Lembah Pantai di Pusat Dagangan Dunia Putra (PWTC) di sini, hari ini.

Turut hadir Ketua UMNO Bahagian Lembah Pantai, Datuk Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidin dan barisan kepimpinan UMNO bahagian tersebut.

Berucap lebih lanjut Ahmad Zahid berkata, dua pemimpin tertinggi UMNO iaitu Presiden, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak dan timbalannya, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin telah memberi contoh terbaik dalam mereka berusaha mengembalikan semula imej baik UMNO.

“Mereka tanpa rasa penat lelah dan jemu menemui rakyat mendengar masalah mereka dan seterusnya menyelesaikan masalah mereka. Sikap yang ditunjukkan oleh Presiden dan Timbalan Presiden hendaklah diikuti dan disahut.

“Jangan biarkan pemimpin kita keseorangan dalam melakukan tugas-tugas ini. Kita sebagai pemimpin bawahan hendaklah sama-sama menyokong dengan turut serta menemui rakyat,” katanya.

Dalam pada itu beliau berkata, media arus perdana sama ada media cetak dan elektronik telah menjalankan tugas dengan baik apabila melaporkan berita secara benar dan tepat.

Sumber: Utusan Malaysia

2011
05/18
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Kaji tukar operasi bas ekspres Pantai Timur ke Puduraya

KUALA LUMPUR: Kerajaan akan mengkaji cadangan menukar lokasi bagi operasi perkhidmatan bas ekspres Pantai Timur ke Hentian Puduraya bagi menjadikan sistem pengangkutan awam negara lebih sistematik dan terkawal.

Menteri Wilayah Persekutuan dan Kesejahteraan Bandar, Datuk Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidin, berkata cadangan yang dikemukakan Uda Holdings Berhad (UHB) itu dilihat satu langkah positif bagi menyepadukan sistem pengangkutan awam negara.

“Hentian Puduraya sudah menjadi sistem pengangkutan bertaraf antarabangsa, malah saya berpendapat kemudahan dan prasarana yang ada di sini lebih baik berbanding beberapa negara lain.

“Pemindahan lokasi destinasi perjalanan Pantai Timur juga satu cadangan yang baik kerana UHB mengakui mampu menguruskannya dengan baik, tetapi kerajaan akan mengkaji lebih mendalam serta melihat keseluruhan aspek penting sebelum membuat keputusan,” katanya pada sidang media selepas mengadakan sesi lawatan ke Hentian Puduraya di sini.

Turut hadir, Pengarah Urusan UHB, Datuk Jaafar Abu Hassan dan Ketua Operasi Negeri dan Pelaksanaan Terminal Suruhanjaya Pengangkutan Awam Darat (SPAD), Mohd Fuad Ahmad.

Raja Nong Chik berkata, pengguna hentian berkenaan juga perlu bekerjasama untuk menjaga kemudahan disediakan kerana sikap tidak prihatin, boleh mencacatkan segala keindahan serta prasarana yang ada.

Sementara itu, Jaafar berkata, kerja penambahbaikan dan naik taraf Puduraya dijangka akan siap sepenuhnya dalam tempoh dua minggu hingga sebulan dan bakal memberi lebih keselesaan kepada pengguna.
“Selain itu, sistem jualan tiket secara dalam talian juga dijangka bakal beroperasi hujung bulan depan dan kita sudah melantik syarikat melaksanakan sistem ini secara berpusat membabitkan semua syarikat pengusaha bas, sekali gus memudahkan pengguna membeli tiket tanpa ke kaunter,” katanya.

Sumber: Berita Harian

2011
05/15
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Raja Nong Chik pleased with improvement made at Puduraya terminal

FEDERAL Territories and Urban Wellbeing Minister Datuk Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidin said the newly-upgraded Puduraya Terminal is much better than the one in New York.

Nong Chik, who visited New York recently, had the opportunity to use the city’s transport terminal and finds the Puduraya Terminal superior.

“The people have to love the facilities here and change their attitude about Puduraya. Do not treat the Puduraya of today as you did the Puduraya of yesterday,’’ he said.

Nong Chik, who made his first working visit to the terminal on Thursday after it was opened to the public on April 16, said he was pleased with the progress of the terminal.

Keeping tabs - Nong Chik with Jaafar (left) checking the CCTV room at the Puduraya terminal

Keeping tabs - Nong Chik with Jaafar (left) checking the CCTV room at the Puduraya terminal

The minister commended UDA Holdings Berhad for the improvements, especially in terms of passengers’ convenience and comfort.

“I was also told the terminal’s surau, which can accommodate 600 people now, has been given the go ahead from Federal Territory Islamic Affairs Department (Jawi) to conduct Friday prayers soon,’’ he said.

UDA Holdings managing director Datuk Jaafar Abu Hassan said the management was working together with the traders at the terminal to iron out problems relating to high rental and matters like lack of business at the food court on the 4th floor.

“We are talking to them and will look into their grouses,’’ he said.

Puduraya terminal was opened in 1976 by the late Prime Minister Tun Hussein Onn.

It underwent a massive upgrade following a directive from Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak who visited the terminal during one of his walkabouts last year.

It caters to all inter-city buses and north-bound express buses.

Source: The Star

2011
05/10
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Terminal Sejahtera Untuk Pelajar Ulang Kaji Pelajaran – Raja Nong Chik

KUALA LUMPUR, 2 Mei (Bernama) — Kementerian Wilayah Persekutuan dan Kesejahteraan Bandar akan menubuhkan pusat ulang kaji pelajaran dikenali sebagai Terminal Sejahtera untuk kemudahan pelajar sekolah rendah dan menengah sekitar ibu negara.

Menteri berkenaan Datuk Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidin berkata terminal itu ditubuhkan untuk memberi ruang serta kemudahan kepada pelajar mengulang kaji pelajaran dalam situasi lebih selesa dan kondusif.

“Tumpuan kita adalah bagi kawasan rumah pangsa di mana mungkin suasana untuk belajar di rumah tidak selesa.

“Jadi, kita akan tubuhkan pusat ini supaya mereka ada tempat untuk belajar dengan selesa,” katanya kepada pemberita selepas menyampaikan Anugerah Cemerlang bagi peperiksaan Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah, Penilaian Menengah Rendah, Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia, Sijil Tinggi Pelajaran Malaysia 2010 kawasan Parlimen Lembah Pantai hari Isnin.

Beliau berkata peruntukan bagi tujuan itu sudah diluluskan Kementerian Kewangan dan pihaknya sedang mengenal pasti beberapa lokasi untuk membina terminal tersebut sebelum ia dapat dimanfaatkan pelajar menjelang penghujung tahun ini. Terdahulu, dalam ucapannya, Raja Nong Chik yang juga Ketua Umno bahagian Lembah Pantai mengumumkan bahawa Umno kawasan berkenaan menyediakan peruntukan kepada Persatuan Ibu Bapa dan Guru (PIBG) bagi program pembangunan pendidikan.

“Bagi memartabatkan pendidikan, sebanyak RM10,000 akan diperuntukkan bagi setiap PIBG sekolah di kawasan Lembah Pantai.

“Kita ada 13 sekolah di kawasan Lembah Pantai ini. Majlis pelancaran dan pemberian peruntukan itu akan diadakan 15 Mei depan di Pusat Dagangan Dunia Putra,” katanya.

Pada majlis itu, seramai 284 pelajar cemerlang masing-masing menerima anugerah berupa sijil dan wang tunai bernilai antara RM100 hingga RM250.

Majlis tersebut anjuran Umno bahagian Lembah Pantai dengan kerjasama Gabungan Pelajar Melayu Semenanjung Lembah Pantai.

Sumber: BERNAMA

2011
05/04
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Flyover from KL Sentral to Jln Damansara opens tomorrow

THE flyover from KL Sentral to Jalan Damansara and the Mahameru Highway will open tomorrow as announced by the Federal Territories and Urban Wellbeing Minister Datuk Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidin.

Raja Nong Chik said the flyover was part of Package 2 of the RM110mil Brickfields traffic dispersal system under the Government Stimulus Package.

“The road that was completed on schedule will only allow motorists to exit the KL Sentral area,” Nong Chik said, adding that there will be traffic wardens to guide vehicles.

The access road to the flyover is through Jalan Stesen Sentral 5 near the Quill 7 building.

Nong Chik said Package 3 which involved upgrading Jalan Tun Sambanthan was in progress.

He also said reverting Jalan Sultan Abdul Samad in Brickfields to a two-way road had been put on hold due to requests by non-governmental organisations.

“These groups voted for the change previously but now they want to put the move on hold until all work in the area is complete to avoid traffic chaos.

“Then we will assess the situation again,” Nong Chik said.

He added that Kuala Lumpur City Hall was in the final stages of planning a way to overcome congestion in Jalan Sultan Abdul Samad.

“One of the suggestions is to create a contra flow along Jalan Tun Sambanthan for buses and taxis only,” Nong Chik said.

Source: The Star

2011
04/28
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No more banners in KL

THE ban on banners and bunting in the Bangsar township has now gone citywide, as Kuala Lumpur City Hall will soon extend the ruling to cover the federal capital following a directive from the Federal Territories and Urban Wellbeing Ministry.

To curb the spreading of commercial banners, bunting, flyers and stickers in Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territories and Urban Wellbeing Minister Datuk Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidn said he had directed City Hall to ban the banners after receiving feedback from the KL-ites.

“Lembah Pantai residents have been particularly vocal about the proliferation of these banners especially in areas like Bangsar and I agree with them that it has indeed become a nuisance,’’ Raja Nong Chik said, adding that he wanted the ruling to include other areas as well.

Nong Chik also advised residents to pull down illegal banners and bunting in their neighbourhoods.

As for the ‘legal’ ones; he said that it was the responsibility of the owners of the banners to bring them down when they no longer served their purpose instead of just leaving them the site.

Yesterday Star Metro reported that banners, bunting, flyers and stickers promoting products and services will soon be banned in Bangsar.

Kuala Lumpur City Hall deputy director-general (services) Datuk Mohd Amin Nordin Abdul Aziz said the local authority was in the midst of studying the feasibility of banning such banners and initially the rule would be enforced in Jalan Maarof, Bangsar.

Amin said City Hall would not issue licences for new banners and no renewal for those that had yet to expire.

The move was made after getting feedback from residents associations and rukun tetangga in the city that have been pushing DBKL to stop the issuance of licences to companies who put up banners and buntings.

“It is no secret that the local authority has been fighting a losing battle against illegal banners and buntings that are being put up at every nook and corner in the city, that’s why we have been helping DBKL bring these ‘eyesores’ down,’’ said a disgruntled Bangsar resident.

Bangsar has become a hotbed for advertisers who put up all sorts of banners on poles, streetlights, traffic lights, trees and mailboxes.

The situation got so bad last year that a serial bunting slasher started going around Bangsar vandalising banners.

For the past several months many banners along Jalan Maarof, Jalan Bangsar, Jalan Ara and Lucky Garden have been slashed into two.

The slasher was regarded by some residents as a sort of vigilante-cum-Robin Hood character who was helping DBKL clean up the township of the unsightly bunting, but as time went by, the torn bunting were not removed and left hanging in tatters.

Outdoor Advertising Association of Malaysia (OAAM) past president Datuk George Frederick said he fully supported Raja Nong Chik’s decision in banning banners and buntings in the city.

“I agree with Raja Nong Chik on this. The people in the industry must learn how to self-regulate. They must understand the aesthetics and the environment that go with the business,’’ he said, adding that DBKL must also do regular enforcement to rid the city off these rubbish.

Another industry player who wished to remain anonymous said: “ Views of the residents should be taken with concern as past conduct of such activities is testimony of how unregulated the banners and buntings has inconvenienced residents,’’ he said.

“Bunting have always been restricted to government campaigns, in DBKL however, approvals of such activity for commercial leaves a lot to be desired,’’ he added.

Source: The Star Online

2011
04/23
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Rumah mampu milik ditambah – Dato’ Raja Nong Chik

KUALA LUMPUR 18 April – Kerajaan akan membangunkan lebih banyak rumah mampu milik di beberapa kawasan bagi memastikan golongan belia tidak perlu menyewa atau menetap di luar ibu kota.

Ia juga sejajar dengan hasrat kerajaan yang menyasarkan lebih ramai orang menghuni bandar raya Kuala Lumpur menjelang tahun 2020.

Menteri Wilayah Persekutuan dan Kesejahteraan Bandar, Datuk Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidin berkata, usaha itu akan dipergiatkan kerana kerajaan menyedari bebanan kewangan yang ditanggung oleh golongan belia.

“Kita sedia maklum dengan masalah yang dihadapi oleh golongan belia terutama mereka yang berpendapatan rendah dan sederhana dan kerana itu, kerajaan berusaha menangani isu perumahan ini,” katanya.

Beliau berkata demikian bagi menjawab usul daripada seorang perwakilan dalam Majlis Perundingan Belia Negeri peringkat Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur yang berlangsung di sini, kelmarin.

Perwakilan berkenaan mencadangkan supaya kerajaan khususnya Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) menyediakan lebih banyak rumah mampu milik bagi memberi peluang kepada golongan muda memiliki rumah sendiri.

Golongan belia berpendapatan rendah dikatakan tidak dapat memanfaatkan pengenalan Skim Rumah Pertamaku yang diumumkan kerajaan berikutan harga kebanyakan rumah di ibu kota melampaui kemampuan mereka.

Selain itu, DBKL juga diminta melonggarkan syarat sewaan rumah Projek Perumahan Rakyat (PPR) bagi memberi peluang kepada golongan belia terutama yang baru berkahwin dan belum mempunyai anak untuk menyewa sekurang-kurangnya selama dua tahun.

Tempoh itu adalah bagi memberi peluang kepada pasangan belia untuk menabung dan kemudian digunakan untuk pembayaran deposit untuk membeli rumah.

Bagaimanapun, Raja Nong Chik berkata, DBKL mempunyai syarat tersendiri bagi penyewaan rumah kos rendah kerana bilangan unit yang terhad sedangkan senarai menunggu terlalu panjang.

“Atas sebab itu juga, jika keutamaan diberi kepada keluarga kecil (pasangan yang baru mendirikan rumah tangga tetapi belum mempunyai cahaya mata), kita bimbang keluarga besar (dengan anak ramai) akan ketinggalan,” katanya.

Sumber: Utusan Malaysia

2011
04/20
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Kampung Pindah Residents Told To Move To PPR Air Panas – Dato’ Raja Nong Chik

KUALA LUMPUR, April 15 (Bernama) — Thirty families occupying 10 houses in Kampung Pindah, here, who are affected by the ground cave-ins following heavy rain Thursday, have been told to move temporarily to the Air Panas people’s housing project (PPR) in Setapak.

Federal Territories and Urban Wellbeing Minister Datuk Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidin said Kuala Lumpur City Hall would assist in the evacuation process.

“These PPR houses is almost complete,” he told reporters after visiting the families at Jalan Hamzah Community Hall in Kampung Baru, here Friday.

Raja Nong Chik also asked the Public Works Institute of Malaysia to carry out soil inspection and other tests at the affected areas.

He had also given the Drainage and Irrigation Department two weeks to restore its drainage system.

The Federal Territory Foundation, Umno and Barisan Nasional would provide assistance to the families, he added.

A resident, Abdul Ghani Mohd Nor, 47, said it was the second time that their area was affected by the cave-in after the first one on Feb 24.

“This one is the worst,” he said.

Source: BERNAMA

2011
04/17
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Bandaraya KL Disasarkan Duduki 20 Tangga Teratas Dengan Pendapatan US $15,000 Menjelang 2020 – Dato’ Raja Nong Chik

MELAKA, 11 April (Bernama) — Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur disasarkan menduduki tangga 20 teratas dalam indeks boleh berdaya huni dengan pendapatan tinggi sebanyak US$15,000 menjelang 2020.

Menteri Wilayah Persekutuan dan Kesejahteraan Bandar Datuk Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidin berkata, pada masa ini, Kuala Lumpur menduduki tangga ke-79 daripada 130 bandaraya dalam indeks boleh berdaya huni mengikut Economist Intelligence Unit (EIA), sebuah badan penyelidikan Amerika Syarikat.

“Antara bidang yang akan diberi penekanan dalam usaha melonjakkan Kuala Lumpur di persada antarabangsa ini termasuk peningkatan kemudahan pengangkutan dan aspek kehijauan,” katanya kepada pemberita selepas menutup Seminar Penduduk 2011 anjuran Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL).

Seminar tiga hari berakhir hari Isnin dihadiri oleh lebih 200 wakil penduduk seluruh Kuala Lumpur. Ia dirasmikan oleh Datuk Bandar DBKL Datuk Seri Ahmad Fuad Ismail untuk mendapatkan maklumat yang lebih terperinci tentang Bajet DBKL dan juga penerangan mengenai “Greater KL” dan tempat-tempat ikonik.

Beliau berkata program transformasi Kuala Lumpur itu juga sebagai memenuhi program di bawah Bidang Keberhasilan Utama Negara (NKEA).

Raja Nong Chik berkata bidang pengangkutan mengambil masa untuk ditingkatkan kerana penambahbaikan infrasturuktur mengambil masa dan kesannya tidak akan dilihat dalam masa yang cepat.

Mengikut laporan DBKL, mod pengangkutan awam Kuala Lumpur mencakupi 12 peratus mengikut data 2009 berbanding kawasan metropolitan utama lain seperti Singapura, Hong Kong dan Tokyo, yang mempunyai mod pengangkutan awam lebih tinggi yang melebihi 50 peratus.

Mengulas lanjut, beliau berkata EIA juga mengambil kira elemen kebersihan dan kehijauan bagi penarafan bandaraya boleh berdaya huni.

Beliau berkata pendapatan tahunan sebanyak US$7,000 isi rumah penduduk Kuala Lumpur pada masa ini perlu dilonjakkan dua kali dalam mencapai sasaran US$15,000 dalam tempoh 10 tahun ini.

Sumber: BERNAMA

2011
04/13
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Community centre gets cash aid

KUALA LUMPUR: The Federal Territories and Urban Wellbeing Ministry presented RM2,000 to a group of disabled participants of a food packing programme at Lembah Pantai community centre here, recently.
The donation was handed over to a representative of the centre by Datin Nafesah Raja Nong Chik, wife of Federal Territories and Urban Wellbeing Minister Datuk Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidin.

She also presented a personal donation of RM1,680 to the centre.

“My heart goes out to them and it is time for us to give back to these people,” she said.

The rehabilitation in the community centre was established as a one-stop centre to register, provide reference and information as well as early intervention for the disabled.

The centre started its operation in January and has 15 disabled participants being trained in food packaging.

Among the items they learn to pack are tapioca chips, banana chips, sweets and pickled fruits. These items are packed in 20kg quantities and are sold wholesale to factories.

Each day they are able to pack five kilogrammes of the snacks for sale in the market.

This programme exposes the disabled to the working environmentand helps the rehabilitation centre generate an extra i ncome for the the operations of the centre.

Source: NST

2011
04/10
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