KUCHING: The state Land and Survey Department received four stars for the Accountability Index by the National Audit Department last year.
Its director Datu Sajeli Kipli said the achievement was accomplished when all of the department’s offices including its headquarters achieved more than 90 per cent marks.
“I hope that the state Land and Survey Department staff will continue to cultivate and preserve this achievement,” he said at the Land and Survey Department Innovation and Integrity Day which was officiated at by Second Minister of Resource Planning and Environment Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan at a leading hotel here yesterday.
Sajeli said it was the Land and Survey Department’s responsibility as a facilitating development agency to play a crucial role in ensuring the balance of development and that the ecosystem here was constantly cared for.
He said the establishment of the Creative and Innovative Group (KIK) served as a mechanism for the department to encourage officers and staff to contribute and share creative ideas in facilitating their tasks more efficiently and effectively.
“Innovation, the result of creative ideas also has to take into account the earth’s ecosystem so that development from this creative idea does not break the chain,” Sajeli said.
Meanwhile, the Land and Survey Department Innovation and Integrity Day saw the participation of 11 groups from all the department’s offices including a hybrid project, which is a collaboration between Kapit Divisional Land and Survey office and Kapit District Office entitled ‘Deposit Pampasan Tanah yang Tertunggak adalah Tinggi’.
Also present at the function was Deputy State Secretary Datu Ose Murang.