By Lee Wei Lian
Apr 07, 2012
KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 7 The tall monetary stakes involved in a large boom in rail infrastructure in a nation could lead to a shift in a country's domestic landscape as good as a figure up of a Transport Ministry, a commercial operation weekly reported today. The amount of money being poured in to rail infrastructure, joined with high-profile scandal-hit projects like Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ), has sparked a realignment of inhabitant governing body with a Transport Ministry, that has traditionally been helmed by MCA, potentially heading to a loss of a rail as good as highway sectors, said The Edge.
"There is a lot of inhabitant pride attached to a rail sector right away as good as Umno believes it must take a lead," an unclear attention source was quoted as saying.
The attention source additionally said that Minister in a Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz was being considered to manage a rail as good as highway sectors, withdrawal a Transport Ministry with ports as good as airports.
If such a move materialises, it could come as a blow to MCA's pride, that has seen a prestige dwindle from a early years following autonomy when it took a lead in high-profile ministries such as finance.
A re-delineation could additionally serve make firm a notice that governing body in Malaysia is too closely tied to commercial operation interests.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had committed himself to reforms together with increasing transparency as good as more open tenders but a reported behind-the-scenes lobbying for billion-ringgit contracts as good as successive revamp of portfolios could be a setback to his efforts.
The Edge report said that a budding minister is penetrating upon larger transparency in infrastructure projects b! ut a gro wing domestic seductiveness in rail could be a "potential headache" for Najib.
Some entities, that have been at large believed to have close ties to Umno, have been already perceived to have benefited enormously from rail projects.
These include MMC, a association tranquil by media-shy tycoon Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary, as good as a joint try partner Gamuda, that has won billion-ringgit rail projects in new years, together with a northern rail double-tracking plan as good as a tunnelling apportionment of a Klang Valley MRT.
It is additionally behest for a Gemas-JB apportionment of a rail double-tracking project.
An ongoing hearing has since a potential glance in to a alleged wheeling as good as traffic that goes upon at a back of a scenes of a country's rail projects.
The KL High Court was reportedly told upon Apr 4 in a case opposite a MMC-Gamuda consortium, that names of domestic leaders were suggested to assistance revive a northern double-tracking rail project, together with stream Umno Youth personality Khairy Jamaluddin.
The RM360 million legal case opposite MMC-Gamuda was reportedly filed by Scomi CEO Shah Hakim Zain, Seow Lun How, Newfields Advisors CEO as good as railway consultant Mansur Ghazali after they claimed that they were not awarded a plan as betrothed after assisting MMC-Gamuda revive a large double-tracking project.
Battles were additionally reportedly waged over a endowment packages in a ongoing KL LRT extension project.
Apart from a rail double-tracking project, that runs a length of a peninsular, as good as a Klang Valley MRT, that has been dubbed country's largest infrastructure plan to date, Malaysia is additionally mulling a building a whole of a high-speed rail link to Singapore as good as is right away awaiting feedback from a island republic.
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