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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Selangor water deal to be inked on Friday, says deputy minister

Energy, Green Technology and Water Deputy Minister Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid said the agreement to restructure treated water services in Selangor would be finalised on Friday. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, September 10, 2014.Energy, Green Technology and Water Deputy Minister Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid said the agreement to restructure treated water services in Selangor would be finalised on Friday. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, September 10, 2014.The final agreement to restructure treated water services in Selangor between Putrajaya and the state will be signed on Friday, said Energy, Green Technology and Water Deputy Minister Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid.
He said the agreement would be finalised even if there were questions about its legitimacy given an impending change in the Selangor menteri besar’s post.
When asked if the ministry had prepared a "Plan B" should the dealings be delayed by the appointment of a new menteri besar, Mahdzir said no alternative had been planned for now.
Klang MP Charles Santiago had asked whether the final agreement should be inked at all, given that Khalid is now a "caretaker" MB after his resignation was deferred pending the Selangor Sultan's decision on a new MB.
“Signing the agreement in the midst of a change in administration could lead to questions of moral and legal legitimacy, especially since there has hardly been any openness and transparency in the negotiations so far.
“It should, instead, wait for the new Selangor leadership to be sworn in, in the interest of good governance and accountability,” Santiago had said.
Khalid was expelled from his party PKR last month after he refused to heed his party's directive to vacate the MB seat for Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.
On August 1, Selangor and Putrajaya signed the heads of government agreement that sealed the exercise.
Under the deal, Putrajaya will assist Selangor in de-privatising the industry and returning it to state control, while Selangor is to approve Putrajaya's RM3.6 billion Langat 2 water treatment plant project.
But PKR and DAP were unhappy with the wording of the agreements signed by Khalid.
They said the agreements extracted too many binding commitments from Selangor towards Putrajaya and lacked guarantees that the operations of the industry would return permanently to public hands.
The master agreement to be signed this Friday details all steps taken by Putrajaya and Selangor to de-privatise the industry.
Selangor is also expected to sign agreements to buy over control in three of the four companies that currently treat and distribute a significant amount of the 3,900 million litres a day that is used by about 7 million people.
The three are Puncak Niaga Sdn Bhd (PNSB), Syabas and Abass, which will be taken over by state-owned Kumpulan Darul Ehsan Berhad.
- TMI

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