DALAT: Dalat assemblywoman Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah has proposed that a one-stop service centre Dalat (OSSCD) for repairing vehicles and outboard engines be set up here.
Fatimah, who is also Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Minister, voiced out her proposal for the attention of Deputy Chief Minister and Minister of Urban Development and Natural Resources Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan when he officiated at the opening of Taman Solidariti Dalat here on Saturday (Dec 12).
Awang Tengah, who is also Minister of International Trade and Industry, Industrial Terminal and Entrepreneur Development, responded positively to Fatimah’s proposal, saying that it would be implemented next year.
Fatimah said currently, workshops and shops operating vehicles and outboard engines repair service were scattered at various locations in and around the bazaar.
She said some of them are using or renting at shoplots, some operating at private locations, while some are at residential areas.
“We proposed to have a complex for an OSSCD, and we seek consideration and approval for it from the government,” she said in her opening speech at the event.
She added that a 10.26-ha of land has been identified, which was initially approved for a Centre of Technical Excellence Sarawak (Centexs) project here, and it is currently in the process of tendering.
She pointed out that Centexs requires only 3.38ha of the land to build an administration block, a workshop and hostel, while the rest of it would be unutilised.
Fatimah suggested that perhaps about 2.5ha of the unutilised land could be used for building the OSSCD complex.
She also said that in future, Centexs’ trainees who are taking certain courses could go for their industrial training at the OSSCD.
