NEW PREMISES: Pretam Singh (left) hands over the CCT plaque signed by Rohani (centre) to Tan. Looking on in the background is Wan Roslan.
SRI AMAN: Ministry of Domestic Trade, Cooperative and Consumerism (KPDNKK) has set up about 40 branches of Consumer’s Claim Tribunal (CCT) across the country, said its deputy minister Datuk Rohani Abdul Karim.
She said this year 10 new CCT branches were set up at Batu Pahat, Johor, Muar, Johor, Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan, Taiping, Perak, Manjung, Perak, Kulim, Kedah, Gombak, Selangor, Kuala Lubu, Selangor, Keningau, Sabah and Sri Aman, Sarawak.
“In Sarawak alone, CCT has branches in Kuching, Miri, Sibu and Bintulu. With the new branch at Sri Aman, the community from Sri Aman, Lubok Antu, Sebuyau, Betong and Saratok can save time and money to go to Kuching and Sibu and file their petitions,” she said at Sri Aman civic centre on Monday.
Rohani, who is also Batang Lupar MP, said CCT was collaborating with the Malaysian Bar Council, Sabah Law Association, Advocates’ Association of Sarawak and Bank Rakyat for free legal aid to consumers.
Rohani said among the objectives of the collaboration was to ease the customer’s financial burden and helping the needy.
With the setting up of CCT, Rohani hoped that the Sri Aman community and other sub-districts would be able to benefit from the facilities provided by the KPDNKK.
“With this, the community will be able to know more of their rights as a consumer and to get whatever sorts of compensations that deemed fit in accordance to the law.”
Meanwhile, Rohani launched Menu Rakyat 1Malaysia, where maximum price for breakfast would be RM2 and lunch at RM5. She said there were eight premises in Sri Aman which are operating their stalls with the new pricing.
“There will be more to join in,” she said adding that about 60 food stalls and restaurants were responding well to the programme.
Among those present was CCT chairman Pretam Singh Darshan Singh, Domestic Trade section head Mohammed Arfazheel Amsir, Sri Aman KPDNKK head Wan Roslan Esmanto Wan Johar and Sri Aman deputy Resident Felicia Tan Ya Hua.