Saturday 18 May 2013

LAND AND SURVEY USE OUTDATED SURVEY PLAN







AFTER a quick check on the title survey plan and road mapping of the Luyang Foh Sang shop area has shown that the Land and Survey Department did not update the details of the title survey plans and other information. The drawings are still showing the same details as far back as twenty years ago.

The Luyang State Assemblyman Hiew King Cheu strongly suggested that the Land and Survey Department should immediately take action to update all the vital information on the drawings in order not to mislead the people who need the information for their work. How can we work with a set of drawings carrying outdated information which leads to many disputes and argument?

The fact is, if in Kota Kinabalu City can have this type of outdated land and survey drawings, what will happen to other urban areas and sub-urban areas through out Sabah? The whole Land and Survey Department must be revamped or certainly some people must face the music in order for the department can be streamlined or become efficient and effective in its work. This explains why a simple task of transferring the ownership of a land title can take up to years.

The Sabah Land and Survey Department is well know for its slackness and unable to deliver speedy work done in a given time. All this is due to the management of the department. By now the department should have enough trained, experienced, and qualified staffs to handle the documentation and administrative work in the department. The computerized system has been in full use, but why it is still “feet dragging”!

There are two types of title survey plans with the department, one set is the imperial set and the other is the metric set. It is confusing and caused a lot of headaches among the people who are making use of it. The calculation on the conversion from imperial to metric unit of measurement always created error and brought disputes.

Just looking at the case in Foh Sang and Bornion shops area, it has presented a true picture on how badly the Land and Survey Department had done a mess-up job here. This is because the land, the roads, and the development are still marked as some 20 over years ago.

There is no amendment, updating and even the lands which had been officially acquired, were not shown in the drawings. The existing road systems and its reserves are no way near to what is shown on the Land and Survey title survey plans.

Hiew said, the people asked the same question on how come the Land and Survey Department couldn’t update all these drawings to its latest status and to precisely mark out the details as on site. The technology nowadays is so advance and accurate, we don’t see why these drawing can’t be done up. The satellite image and with the Global Positioning System (GPS), it can provide the department with speedy up dating and marking out of any area they want. We don’t understand why we are still dragging behind.

It is time that the Sabah State Government should do something immediately and positive to revamp the Land and Survey Department, and to give the people some benefits and convenience in their work and well beings.

31 comments:

  1. Further action needs to be taken.

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  2. Jangan biarkan masalah ini menjadi buat mulut pembangkang lagi susah.

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  3. University students are supposed to think rationally and filter information obtained from various quarters, said Universiti Malaysia Sabah Chancellory department head No’ aman Ahmad.

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  4. “Smart people will use their minds to weigh the matter instead of just absorb rumours or propaganda to the extent that the reality is twisted unnecessarily."

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  5. “When it happens, that will be the sign of regressing civilized community. "

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  6. 28th April, 2013

    SOOK: Some 2,607 residents from 46 villages here are set to benefit from the communal land grants which were officially presented here by the state government yesterday.

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  7. The 36 communal titles involved a total area of 25,896 acres (10,358 hectares) at the Sook Plain (Pensiangan) and Mandalom (Keningau).

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  8. He added that the BN government understood that one of the concerns of the people was land ownership and was therefore committed to resolving this issue in Sabah including in Pensiangan.

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    1. Kerajaan masih gagal menyelesaikan isu tanah di Sabah?

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  9. “The move to give these communal land titles is proof that this government walks the talk. We have been implementing this scheme since 2010 and today we bring it to the people of Pensiangan,” he said.

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  10. He also said the BN government has and would continue to bring development throughout Sabah especially in the interior areas like Pensiangan.

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  11. Musa said likewise the federal government under the visionary leadership of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has come up with various projects and programmes to assist the people and reduce their burden as a result of rising cost of living.

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  12. “I always tell the PM that Sabah is the second largest state in Malaysia and it still requires a lot of development. And, he has been very attentive to Sabah’s needs, channelling billions towards the state’s socioeconomic development.

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  13. “I know that Pensiangan still requires a lot more development and more will be coming your way,” he assured.

    The Chief Minister also hoped the people in the area were aware of and valued the contribution of the BN government all these years.

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  14. The people, he urged, should read the BN manifesto and judge for themselves what have been implemented and achieved under the BN.

    “At the state level, we have our own report card to show our achievements, from a double digit drop in poverty to achieving the largest state reserves,” he said.

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  15. He also said the BN government at both the federal and state levels have assisted everyone regardless of their racial and cultural backgrounds through projects and programmes geared towards assisting the people to improve their standard of living.

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  16. Meanwhile, Musa said the people here should not jeapordise their future and be influenced by the empty promises of opposition who were just out to mislead them.

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    1. Belum lagi memimpin, tidak tahu baik ke buruk sebenarnya.

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  17. He also said those who dirtched BN to join the opposition were ‘recycled leaders’ who have yet to prove themselves.

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  18. The protest gatherings against the 13th general election results did not reflect the characteristic of democracy as these were protests against the decision made by the majority of Malaysians, said Communication and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery Cheek.

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  19. Masalah tanah sudah menjadi salah satu isu utama yang dihadapi oleh penduduk Sabah sekian lama.

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  20. Menurut pengarah Jabatan Tanah dan Ukur,
    Datuk Osman Jamal, kekurangan pegawai dalam Jabatan Tanah dan Ukur
    merupakan salah satu sebab pemprosesan permohonan tanah tidak dapat
    diselesaikan.

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  21. Setiap tahun, 40,000 permohonan tanah diterima dan keupayaan kerajaan untuk memproses hanya 16,000 permohonan. Semua permohonan tanah yang telah dilakukan dalam talian telah dilaksanakan sejak tahun 2004, tetapi pemprosesan memerlukan
    banyak masa disebabkan permohonan bertindih.

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  22. Menurut Osman, hanya permohonan untuk tanah dilakukan dengan sistem berkomputer tetapi pemprosesan perlu dijalankan secara manual dan ini
    mengambil banyak masa.

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    1. Mungkin sistem manual harus dinaik tarafkan.

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  23. Dengan 40,000 permohonan setiap tahun, ia adalah mustahil untuk memproses permohonan dengan cepat. Tambahan pula, banyak perubahan dalam kerajaan pada masa lalu iaitu dari Usno, Berjaya, PBS dan kini kerajaan BN.

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  24. Selain daripada permohonan bertindih, jabatan tersebut turut berhadapan dengan pertindihan dasar-dasar baru kerajaan hari ini. Lagi pula, tidak ada tertulis dalam undang-undang bahawa "whoever applies first will get it first", kata Osman.

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  25. Memang agak rumit isu berhubung dengan tanah
    ini. Mudah-mudahan kerajaan dapat mengambil langkah yang lebih efisien dan efektif bagi menyelesaikannya.

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  26. Diharap juga kekurangan pegawai dalam
    Jabatan Tanah dan Ukur dapat diisi dengan segera sebagai salah satu penyelesaian kepada pemprosesan permohonan tanah yang semakin bertambah setiap tahun.

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  27. Kerajaan harus mencari jalan altenatif untuk menanggani isu tanah.

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