Community Centre 'Gift' For Beringin PPR Residents
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 11 (Bernama) -- Residents of the Beringin People's Housing Project (PPR) here can now heave a sigh of relief over the completion of the RM8 million community centre, built with a lot of comfortable facilities which can now be used from today.
The community centre is not only equipped with a 21,430 square foot multipurpose hall with air conditioning, but also has three badminton courts and a basketball court.
Other facilities available at the centre are changing rooms, toilets, offices and prayer rooms.
Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor said before, the residents faced many problems due to the absence of a suitable place to conduct activities, such as limited and unplanned retail space causing traders to set up stalls by the roadside, under the building blocks and the edge of the PPR until it began to affect the view of the area.
"Residents also needed to have their own vehicles to go to the nearby mosque located more than five kms away or to the surau which is approximately eight kms away.
"It was also difficult for the more than 8,000 residents here to carry out community activities given the absence of hall facilities suitable for these activities, thus the new facilities can hopefully benefit them," he said when opening the Beringin Community Centre, here today.
Tengku Adnan said the government also built a RM3.5 million surau as well as 12 hawker stalls with a construction cost of RM650,000 in the PPR area.
"In addition, the existing futsal court facilities at the PPR damaged by vandalism have also been repaired and upgraded and I hope that all these facilities will be maintained well as the cost of repairing the damage is huge," he said.
According to him, all the provisions for the implementation of the facility were contributed with the cooperation of the Economic Planning Unit, the Implementation Coordination Unit of the Prime Minister's Department, Kuala Lumpur City Hall and the Federal Territory Islamic Religious Council.
In addition, Tengku Adnan also announced the construction of a multi-storey car park at the residence following serious parking problems in the area which will be implemented beginning early next year.
Meanwhile, one of the residents who has been living in the PPR for the past 13 years, Norlizan Shaikh Husin, 48, said she was grateful for the convenience of the long-awaited hall which would now facilitate the daily activities of the people.
-- BERNAMA
