上周日 (10月21日) 民政党峇都区部连同国阵成员党代表再度走访水塘路，召集政府批准在峇都河(Sungai Batu)建防洪堤工程遭受影响和必须拆除的附近住宅区居民们进行对话，商讨他们目前所面对的问题。
参与活动的峇都区民政党服务中心协调员刘华才博士表示，遭受这项建防洪堤工程影响的其中8户人家，以华裔为主。水利灌溉局已经通过吉隆坡市政局确认受影响的家户，但他们还未收到正式通知几时需要搬迁，令到居民们顿时感到无所适从。在对话会中，有些居民认为水利灌溉局应该给予他们足够的期限来安排搬迁工作或安顿他们在另外的住处，有些居民则不愿意搬迁，宁可承受水灾所带来的困扰。
"鉴于这个住宅区的所在地乃属水利灌溉局的保留地，因此水利灌溉局是有权征用这块土地和强制居民们搬迁。换句话说，居民们必须面对屋子被拆的命运。然而，民政党峇都区答应将为居民们向政府争取适当的援助，以减轻居民们目前经济上的负担。与此同时，我们也向居民们解释这项建防洪堤工程的重要性，将一劳永逸地解决水塘路的水灾问题，也是履行国阵政府对人民的承诺。" 刘华才指出。
刘华才也补充，这也是民政党峇都区部在"我爱峇都"的计划下，持续跟进的其中一项工作。民政党将持续服务峇都国会选区的居民，解决他们的民生问题，并提高他们的生活素质。
Forced to relocate by the flood embankment project under DID
Batu Gerakan promises to help 8 families by alleviating their burden
Press statement by Batu Gerakan Service Centre Coordinator
Dr. Dominic Lau Hoe Chai
23 October 2010
Last Sunday (21 October), Gerakan Batu Division along with the members of BN component parties once again visited Jalan Kolam Air to gather all the residents in the neighbourhood who are affected by the flood embankment project at Sungai Batu approved by the government and forced to relocate, in order to have a dialogue with the residents of the surrounding neighbourhood to discuss the problems they are facing currently.
Gerakan Batu Service Centre Coordinator Dr. Dominic Lau Hoe Chai who attended the dialogue session said that the 8 families affected by the flood embankment project are mainly Chinese. The Department of Irrigation and Drainage already identified through the DBKL on families who are affected, however those families are yet to receive formal notification at the time which requires them to move out, which is confusing them. During the dialogue session, some of the residents felt that the Department of Irrigation and Drainage should give them an adequate period of time to arrange the relocation works, or help them to settle down at another place, while some of them voiced their unwillingness to relocate, they would rather bear the possible inconvenience brought by the flood.
"Judging from the fact that the Department of Irrigation and Drainage actually owns the land of this neighbourhood, therefore the department is entitled to expropriate the land and demand the residents to relocate. In other words, the residents will have no choice but to face the fate of their home to be demolished. Anyway, Gerakan Batu Division promises to help the residents to ask for proper assistance from the government, in order to alleviate the economic burden of the residents. While at the same time, we also explained the importance of the flood embankment project to the residents so that the constant flood problem in Jalan Kolam Air will be solved once and for all, which is also the promise that BN is now fulfilling it," said Dr. Dominic Lau.
Dr. Dominic Lau also added that it was also one of the programmes under the "I love Batu" plan that Gerakan has been following-up. Gerakan would continue to serve the residents of Batu parliamentary constituency, solve their livelihood problems and improve their quality of life
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