KUALA LUMPUR: The Works Ministry will certainly be accomplishing a fifty percent million ringgit technological research study on the recommended bridge in between Labuan and Menumbok, Sabah.
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Federal Territories) Dr Zaliha Mustafa ( image) stated the funds are anticipated to be paid out very early following year.
“In the meantime, we will also look into other ways to improve connectivity in Labuan,” she stated when satisfied on Monday (Nov 11).
On April 30, Dr Zaliha was reported as claiming that the Works Ministry was bidding process for an appropriation to perform a technological research study on the recommended task.
“We require it to guarantee, for instance, if it is actually practical and just how much is the anticipated spending plan if we intend to develop the bridge,” she had actually stated.
Plans to develop a bridge connecting the island to the Sabah landmass have actually been mooted numerous times throughout the years.
In 2020, after that Federal Territories Minister Tan Sri Annuar Musa stated it would certainly be developed via a personal money campaign.
He stated his ministry and the Works Ministry remained in the procedure of settling the regards to recommendation for the “ask for proposition procedure to develop the bridge.
