(From left) Emran and Nor Fuad planting one of the 536 trees near Dataran Kemerdekaan MBSA in Section 14, Shah Alam.
SHAH Alam City Council (MBSA) has initiated an electronic inventory system to record trees and landscape assets in the city.
Shah Alam mayor Dr Nor Fuad Abd Hamid launched the system, called e-Palsa, at Dataran Kemerdekaan MBSA in Section 14.
In a statement, MBSA said the system comprised two sections, the first being an inventory on shade trees located at playing fields, public parks and lakes, sidewalks, residential areas, and green lungs.
The second inventory is for landscape assets such as lights, rubbish bins, benches, parking lots, football fields and recreational courts.
The objective, MBSA said, was to better facilitate maintenance works, complaints, and tree-planting activities in the city.
The system is accessible by smartphone, making the monitoring of recreational facilities easier.
It is to be implemented in phases, the first of which is in Section 14, Shah Alam.
“The pilot project recorded 9,156 assets, out of which 7,817 are trees and 1,348 others are landscape assets,” MBSA said in the press statement.
The launch coincided with MBSA’s tree-planting programme “Shah Alam Trees For Life”, which began in 2010.
A total of 536 trees were planted on the day, in addition to some 117,899 trees that were planted until the end of last year in line with MBSA’s commitment to make Shah Alam a low-carbon city by 2030.
Also present at the event were Orang Besar Daerah Petaling Datuk Emran Kadir and Shah Alam deputy mayor Cheremi Tarman.
