State Local Government, Traffic Management and Flood Mitigation Committee chairman Chow Kon Yeow said the fund was being used to finance flood mitigation projects in the state.
For the period between 2008 and 2017, he said, the state executive council committee for flood mitigation approved expenditure of RM176.9 million for flood mitigation projects in the state, although the collection during the period was only RM131.9 million.
“Besides using funds from the drainage contribution, the state government also approved RM150 million in the 2017 Budget for implementation of nine flood mitigation projects of high-impact,” he said in a statement here today.
According to the Auditor-General’s Report 2016 Series 1, tabled in Parliament on July 31, MPSP did not hand over the collection of its drainage contribution to the State Drainage and Irrigation Department (DID).
It said as of June last year, MPSP was still withholding RM22.09 million.
Chow said the state government, MPSP and DID accepted the Auditor-General’s report, and an instruction had been issued to MPSP to hand over the remaining collection to the state DID before the end of the year.