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Malaysia's High Economic Growth Due To Govt's Supreme Ideas - Malaysian Pm
MALAYSIA'S HIGH ECONOMIC GROWTH DUE TO GOVT'S SUPREME IDEAS
JOHOR BAHARU (Johor, Malaysia), Dec 12 (Bernama) -- Malaysia is categorised
as having a high economic growth, enabling it to provide high-paying jobs, said
Prime Minister Najib Razak.
"This is the result of the government leadership's plans which contain
supreme ideas.
"This is sound planning for the country. And this is our success when we
have a government with the ability to come up with development plans based on
outstanding ideas."
Najib said this when launching the Iskandar Malaysia Public Housing Project
here, Sunday.
He said some 20,000 high-paying jobs had so far been provided in Iskandar
Malaysia.
Najib said with Iskandar Malaysia's changing landscape that was increasingly
drastic, new job opportunities would increase to 50,000 by 2015 and 800,000 by
2025.
"This is the success of a government chosen by all of you and we will uphold
this trust to the best of our ability and will work with full spirit and
dedication," he told the audience.
Najib said the success was also due to the same government being chosen at
the national and state (Johor) level, enabling close cooperation between the
federal and Johor governments, thus enabling new changes and a major development
transformation in Iskandar Malaysia.
He also stressed that this regional development was people-friendly,
inclusive and based on social justice.
On the housing project, Najib said it would be able to give the people a
better quality of life.
"I believe that with a better quality of life, the residents here will be
able to chart a better future for themselves," he said.
The RM200 million (US$64.51 million) project is targeted for those with
families having a household monthly income of less than RM3,000 (US$967,000).
It consists of three- and four-storey apartments with 1,500 units, with 10
per cent of them built specially for the disabled.
The housing complex which has broadband facility, solar panels and rain
water collection facility, among others, was built according to the crime
prevention through environmental design (CPTED) approach to ensure the
residents' safety.
The monthly rental for the units is between RM360 (US$116) and RM560
(US$180), with the lease contract to be renewed every two years.
Iskandar Malaysia is the main southern development corridor in the state of
Johor.
-- BERNAMA