Towards eco-dream
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IF the Seberang Prai Municipal Council (MPSP) has its way, the municipality will be an eco-lover’s dream.
It has laid out a plan in its effort to strive towards green growth in the municipality this year.
Its president Maimunah Mohd Sharif said the plan focused on restoration and greening of urban areas and the establishment of an eco- community.
She said there would also be focus on planning and development, enforcement, revenue increment and cost efficiency efforts, community participation in fiscal management and the development of human capital capacity.
“Our target is to accomplish 31 programmes and 127 activities which have been laid out for each of the seven focus areas this year,” she said.
She was giving a presentation at the Penang Symposium on ‘Greening Urban Growth’ at a hotel in Batu Ferringhi, Penang, yesterday.
Maimunah spoke on the topic ‘What Are the respective Roles of National and Municipal Authorities in Defining and Implementing Green Growth?’.
She said the council would continue to practise sustainability in development.
“We realise the importance of sustainability and we are now focusing on green planning in terms of procurement and expenditure,” she said.
Maimunah stressed that it was important to get the whole community involved in running services which could contribute to green growth.
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