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Rawang residents cry for help
31/12/2008 NST K. Harinderan

Rawang residents meet up with the authorities for a three-hour dialogue session to air their grievances.

SELAYANG: Public safety, the non-issuance of land titles and infrastructure problems were the main topics of discussion at a recent dialogue between residents of Bukit Rawang Jaya and their assemblyman, local councillor and the police.

Over 150 residents from the housing development in Rawang attended the three-hour session which saw many residents raising issues to seek resolution or answers from the authorities on various problems.

The event was organised by the Bukit Rawang Jaya Residents' Association, which is one of the first RAs to be registered in Rawang since July this year.

The panel members comprised Rawang assemblyman Gan Pei Nei, Zone 18 Selayang councillor Tan Hui Chuan, Rawang police station head Chief Inspector Ramzi Mahmuddin and the RA's chairman M. Ramuseren.

To a complaint by a resident, who only wanted to be known as Keng, that after residing at the housing scheme for about 20 years, he had yet to obtain the land title to his home, Gan said more than 70 per cent of land owners there were in the same predicament.

"This is due to the fact that the previous developer of the housing scheme had filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11. The matter is now with the state authorities.

"The plans to subdivide the individual lots were not processed at the time as the company had run out of funds and only a portion of the home owners held titles to their properties."

Gan added that some committee members had approached her on the matter and she had met with the Selangor State Insolvency Department four times.

She said she was informed that the original plans seemed to overlap across many lot boundaries in the scheme and this problem had to be ironed out first before any titles were issued.

The department had also informed her that some of the development plans were lost and had to be recovered from various other authorities like the Gombak land office, thus causing further delay.

Bukit Rawang Jaya Flats resident David Lim raised the issue of strata titles not being received by the flat owners.

Gan said the strata titles was entangled with the problem faced by the other homeowners and advised the flat owners to retain all receipts of tenancy for verification in future.

Mohd Jeffry Cheong raised the question of the rising crime rate in the area as many residents had been victims of snatch thefts and house break-ins. Keng said his home was broken into twice in the span of a month.

Ramzi said the crime rate in the area had seen a reduction in the past year. In 2007, there were 77 cases of motorcycle thefts, house break-ins and snatch thefts, but the number had dropped to 53 this year.

Ramzi advised the residents to be more vigilant and to tip-off the police upon witnessing any dubious activities.

He also said he had submitted a proposal for a community police station to be located at the housing scheme.

To a question raised by A. Padma on the failure of night market operators to clean up the site after themselves, Tan said the problem would be solved as the council would take over all operations of night markets from Jan 1.

The council will then be responsible for the clean-up and rubbish collection.

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