Juru Village within the Seberang Perai Tengah (SPT) district has been awarded third place within the 2024 Nationwide New Village Competitors, organised by the Ministry of Housing and Native Authorities (KPKT). The popularity got here with a federal grant price RM500,000, offered to the Village Neighborhood Administration Council (MPKK) led by chairman Cheh Kim Weng, 61.
Bukit Tengah State Assemblyman, Gooi Hsiao-Leung, highlighted that this isn’t the village’s first recognition, as Juru has beforehand obtained a number of awards on the native, state, and nationwide ranges. These embody third place within the 2021 Seberang Perai Metropolis Council’s Clear Village Competitors and runner-up within the 2024 Nationwide Panorama Award along with Malaysia Panorama Day.
Gooi described the achievement as vital, noting that the competitors concerned over 600 new villages throughout Malaysia. He expressed satisfaction in Juru’s continued recognition, saying it displays the sturdy neighborhood spirit and management throughout the village.
Juru Village was formally established in 1952, through the Malayan Emergency interval, as a part of the British colonial authorities’s resettlement technique to fight communist insurgency. The village has since advanced right into a well-established neighborhood, now house to over 300 landed residential models and roughly 2,000 residents.
The primary village improvement and safety committee (JKKK) chairman was Chow Hoe (1952–1969), adopted by a collection of successors main as much as the present chairman, Cheh Kim Weng, who has performed a central function within the village’s ongoing improvement by the MPKK.
KPKT’s Village Growth Officer for SPT, Okay.C. Ng, defined that the competitors was reintroduced to understand the contributions of communities dwelling in Malaysia’s 613 new villages. The goal, he mentioned, is to encourage socio-economic improvement and encourage youthful generations to stay related to those historic communities.
He added that KPKT has allotted RM1.9 million this yr for 9 infrastructure tasks throughout seven new villages in Seberang Perai, together with Juru and Kampung Selamat within the north. These tasks deal with bettering roads, drainage, pedestrian walkways, and panorama parts. Moreover, housing restore initiatives are ongoing in areas corresponding to Machang Bubuk and Juru.
Gooi emphasised the significance of preserving the cultural and historic worth of recent villages, referring to them as “dwelling heritage.” He additionally expressed help for MPKK Juru’s intention to make use of a part of the federal grant to assemble a brand new entrance archway as a symbolic gateway and landmark for the village.
Each federal and state governments have proven ongoing help for brand new village improvement, with the federal authorities allocating RM84 million for brand new villages nationwide in 2024.
(Photos supply: Buletin Mutiara)
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