PMO officers visit Bkt Jalil estate

According to residents' action committee member, the officers visited the area to find out the real situation of the ex-workers.

BUKIT JALIL: Two officers from the Prime Minister’s Office visited the Bukit Jalil estate where former workers are demanding that the federal government allocate four acres out of the remaining 26-acre land to build low-cost houses for them.

The Indian officers also refused to introduce themselves and requested the media not to take photographs of them.

Bukit Jalil Estate Residents’ Action Committee member K Balakrishnan said that he was told the officers visited the estate to find out the real situation of the residents.

“They also visited Bandar Kinrara Section 1, which is an ex-estate turned into low-cost terrace houses for the plantation workers,” he added.

Also present was Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) secretary-general S Arutchelvan and Hindraf coordinators.

It was reported that in 1973, the Ministry of Labour and Manpower had discussed about the housing project for the plantation workers in both the Kinrara and Bukit Jalil estates.

While Kinrara estate received the houses, Bukit Jalil residents were overlooked.

Meanwhile, Balakrishnan insisted that the residents would submit a memorandum to Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak as planned.

“When the government is willing to spend RM20 million to buy land in Penang, what is the big deal for them to build houses in Bukit Jalil?” he asked.