Mindef report: 21 years – but contractor yet to complete National Defence Institute project


  • Nation
  • Wednesday, 15 May 2019

A file picture of then-prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (left) looking a model of the National Defence Institute (Puspahanas) project in Putrajaya back in November 2008.

PETALING JAYA: It has been 21 years – but a contractor has yet to complete the National Defence Institute (Puspahanas) project in Putrajaya, according to the Defence Ministry's audit report on land swaps.

The setbacks included an order to relocate an initial project site from Rawang Templer Park to Presint 1 Putrajaya so as not to disturb the green lung, revaluation of a land bond during economic downturn, local authorities' delay in granting a development order to carry out projects on swapped land in Selangor to finance the Puspahanas project, and then Pakatan Rakyat-controlled Selangor government's additional condition imposed on the contractor to build a hospital before approving title deed transfer.

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