(Sitting fourth from right) Ripin, Julani (sixth) and others observe the Miring ceremony.
MIRI: The Lambir Constituency (DUN) Service Centre will conduct its laboratory session to gather development feedback for the constituency over the next five years.
Lambir assemblyman Ripin Lamat said the lab session which aims to get various inputs from the people at grassroots level will be held during the month of Ramadan.
“The input that we collect during the lab session through the people from various walks of life as well as non-government organisations (NGO) from Lambir areas are vital to produce a development blueprint for the next five years in the constituency.
“With this development blueprint, the people will be more clear on the government development agenda to accelerate vibrant socio and economic activities in Lambir,” he said when officiating at a pre-Gawai Dayak event at ParkCity Everly Hotel recently.
Ripin said he was looking forward to the lab session where the development plan for the area would be based on the people’s aspiration and needs.
Touching on Rural Transformation Project (RTP), he admitted there were some delays in the projects this year which involved a total allocation of RM5 million for the constituency.
“The RTP projects for this year have yet to start and a bit slow. However, there is no need to be worried as the implementation of these projects is expected to commence either by end of this month or early July.”
He assured that those projects that had been approved would be implemented this year.
Currently, he said efforts to tar seal the access roads leading to longhouses and villages in Lambir were in progress.
“Hopefully by next year, the rural folk in Lambir are able to enjoy tar sealed roads to their respective villages and longhouses.”
On the water supply issue in Ulu Sibuti, he told them that this matter was brought up during the DUN sitting and was in the process of implementation.
Ripin told the village development and safety committees (JKKK) and women bureaus in the constituency would receive government grant under his Minor Rural Project (MRP) allocation totalling more than half million ringgit.
He said each JKKK would receive RM3,000 and another RM2,000 for its women bureau.
The distribution of the government grant would be conducted in stages with the first one on June 1 to the longhouse recipients for the Gawai Dayak celebration.
Also present was a political secretary to the chief minister Julani Mokhtar.