The Penang state government has questioned why applications from Penangites for the federal maintenance fund (TP1M) have not been approved for the last two years.
In a press conference today, state exco Jagdeep Singh Deo urged the BN government to answer to the people of Penang on why this is so.
"Why is it for two years - 2016 until 2017 - not even one application from Penang to their TP1M fund has been approved," questioned the exco in charge of housing, town and country planning.
"It is of serious concern that the disbursement of funds from TP1M shows a 92 percent drop, year on year from 2015 to 2016," he added.
"The fund which had been steadily increasing from the year 2013 (RM32.82 million); 2014 (RM46.49 million) and 2015 (RM50.73 million), had shown a shocking drop to only RM3.98 million in 2016 for projects throughout the country," he stressed.
Jagdeep said this has been confirmed by the Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government ministry in a reply to questions from Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng.
He added the answers from the ministry also clearly showed that other states under BN-Umno like Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis, Sarawak, Terengganu, Putrajaya and Labuan also did not receive any allocation from TP1M in 2016.
He noted that a sum of RM200 million is allocated under TP1M via Budget 2018 as announced by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak.
"Penang urges the federal government to approve the outstanding 114 applications pending from Penang under TP1M, which projects amount to RM61,706,743," said Jagdeep.
"We have in fact requested for priority to be given to these outstanding applications much earlier through our letters dated September 14 and 15 to the Implementation Coordination Unit (ICU) of the Prime Minister’s Department.
"Penang has outperformed the federal government three-fold under its maximum 80 percent maintenance fund as opposed to the federal's TP1M Fund," he said.- Mkini
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