‘All innovative projects benefit the people’

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Morshidi (second left) and other officials listening to an explanation by a JKR Bintulu personnel on the C-Flex H20 Intake installed at Tubau Water Treatment Plant.

BINTULU: All innovative projects by government agencies have benefitted the people, said State Secretary Tan Sri Datuk Amar Mohamad Morshidi Abdul Ghani yesterday.

“Each ICG (Innovative and Creative Group) project of the state civil service should get a result that it not only helps the people but is also effective in terms of cost and time,” he said when visiting the site project of ‘C-Flex H20 Intake’ Group ICG Q-INNO Public Works Department (JKR) Bintulu Division at Tubau Water Treatment Plant.

Morshidi said the state had the most ICGs in the country – at 232.

“We want to create more ICGs. It is important so that the thinking process will continue, especially in resolving problems affecting the people.”

He stressed that civil servants must be able to empathise the hardship of the people (when using public facilities) because they (civil servants) were also people.

“If civil servants do not want to work with the government, they can work in companies. Of course, these companies also want profits. It is similar in government. If the work is done well, it benefits us.”

Morshidi said projects undertaken by ICGs should not be used to show off.

“The government is trying to improve services to the public. There are a million things to do, but we cannot do everything.”

Nevertheless, he said government officials were committed to provide quality services, and this entailed making lots of changes.