Federal Govt To Take Over Solid Waste Management

June 22, 2007 15:50 PM

PUTRAJAYA, June 22 (Bernama) -- The federal government will take over the management of solid wastes and public cleaning from the local authorities with the setting up of the Solid Waste and Public Cleaning Management Corporation next year.

To effect this, two legislations will be tabled in Parliament on July 2, namely the Solid Waste and Public Cleaning Management System Bill and the Solid Waste and Public Cleaning Management Corporation Bill.

Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the 54th meeting of the National Council Committee for Local Governments Friday approved the Bills which sought to give the federal government executive power to take over the management of solid wastes and public cleaning.

He said the government had approved a RM1 billion start-up grant to the corporation.

The government would also set up a supervisory department called the National Solid Waste Management Department, he told reporters after chairing the meeting here.