By Anisah Shukry
April 15, 2012
Lim expressed lifted a probability which a firms may emanate summonses indiscriminately to progress revenue. File pic
The Edge reported yesterday which dual firms have been awarded a stipulate to exercise a enforcement system. ATES Sdn Bhd as good as Beta Tegap Sdn Bhd will outlay betw! een RM30 0 million to RM400 million any to set up trade cameras at 831 "black spots" nationwide.
But a DAP secretary-general toldThe Malaysian Insiderthat a problem was not which it was outsourced, though which a Road Transport Department (RTD) had dished out a understanding to a dual companies through sealed tender.
"The categorical emanate is, because was there no open rival tender? Why not award it to a best, most qualified company?" he toldThe Malaysian Insider.
"W sick a plan be foolproof? Are they even reliable?"
Lim additionally expressed concerns which a companies competence abuse their energy by issuing court order indiscriminately, as it would be their categorical source of revenue.
Both ATES as good as Beta Tegap have been entitled to RM16 per valid court order for a initial five million issued as good as afterwards split a remaining income evenly with a supervision up to a cap of RM270 million each, The Edge reported.
The firms will any receive 7.5 per cent from a remaining income as good as a supervision will keep a rest.
According to a weekly, any association will likely emanate 10 million valid summonses over a five-year period from which all paid summonses will be deposited into a account from which a ! firms wi ll r! ecoup th eir investment.
The Edge estimated which half a summonses, any carrying a penalty of RM300, will be paid, resulting in a account size of RM1.5 billion per company. This would amount to RM416 million paid to any contractor.
This would be a large lapse if a companies conduct to keep costs closer to RM300 million, even if a complete investment is created down after a five-year concession.
Today, Lim additionally cited a 17 per cent rate of lapse since to a companies as serve proof of profiteering, since which a common maximum rate is "eight to 10 per cent".
He combined which a most appropriate way to address highway safety issues was for a RTD to teach a public as good as demeanour into issues such as trade congestion as good as r! oad cond itions.
Yesterday, The Edge reported which a AES project, which will be put into place in September, has resulted in unhappiness from a police.
But RTD director-general Datuk Solah Mat Hassan told a newspaper a complement will usually be set up in areas with high incidences of deadly accidents.
"About 6,000 people die in highway accidents each year. That's quite alarming. That is usually a deadly collision figures. What about other non-fatal accidents?" he was quoted as saying.
However, The Edge reported which a military is pronounced to be firming up plans to progress the own trade camera system.
The RTD says unpaid trade summonses between 2005 to 2009 amounts to RM5.8 billion.
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