Local authorities to take over Alam Flora’s cleaning work

THE cleaning work that has been carried out by Alam Flora Sdn Bhd will now be taken over by the nine local authorities in Selan-gor. Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim said the state government had decided that Alam Flora would only be in charge of garbage collection, while local authorities would do the cleaning work. The local authorities will now clean drains, fields and roads, said Khalid after the Selangor state monthly meeting yesterday. He said this was important because local authorities had been receiving many complaints on cleanliness. Khalid said the state government was planning to spend about RM200mil for cleaning work. “The local authorities will have their own workers and if need be they will give out contracts for cleaning projects,” he said. Khalid said the decision was not due to Alam Flora’s failure to deliver, but he felt that they could not handle everything by themselves. “If they only focus on garbage collection then it will be easier for us to know what their job specialisation is,” he said. Khalid said Alam Flora’s role as coordinators by using contractors must be reduced and they had to be directly involved with the tasks given. “About 10 years ago, all these tasks were done by the local authorities. Now we are reverting to the old way. Alam Flora’s initial role was only to deal with garbage collection and disposal,” he said.