PM Anwar not happy with implementation of small projects

PUTRAJAYA: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, in voicing his dissatisfaction with the slow implementation of small projects such as the repair of dilapidated schools and health clinics, wants the process to be expedited.

He said the government, had in November last year, announced that all dilapidated schools and clinics should be repaired and the work to be completed this year.

However, implementation-wise, it is not satisfactory, especially at the level involving the district offices, he added.

Anwar, who is also Finance Minister, said the disbursement of funds for small projects should be expedited.

Schools without toilets or with leaking roofs cannot wait two years for the repair work, he said at an assembly with the staff of the Finance Ministry here today.

Anwar said he had discussed with Works Minister Datuk Seri Alexander Nanta Linggi for the small projects to be excluded from the scope of duties of the Public Works Department (JKR), which is currently burdened with thousands of projects, and to be handed over to the relevant departments and ministries, especially at the district office level to speed up their implementation.