Following quite a lot of teams’ questioning the choice by the Selangor state authorities to award the parking price assortment and enforcement rights to an organization, Selangor native authorities and tourism committee chairman Datuk Ng Suee Lim has acknowledged that parking administration via a concessionaire has been in use in Selangor since 1996, reported Bernama.
The implementation of the concessionary parking administration that’s to be signed and enforced on August 1 this yr will enhance the prevailing system, Ng mentioned. “This privatisation has its professionals and cons, so this time the state is guaranteeing a win-win state of affairs by adopting the method of utilizing Good Clever Parking (SIP), with Menteri Besar Selangor Integrated (MBI) taking part in a task in parking administration,” he mentioned.
The choice to implement the parking administration system arose from the thirty third 2024 state government council assembly (MMKN) which convened on November 28, 2024, and this was confirmed within the thirty fourth 2024 state government council assembly that adopted on December 6, 2024, Ng mentioned.
“The Selangor authorities agreed in precept to implement parking administration (TLK) via a collaboration between the Selangor MBI and personal corporations. Then the twelfth/MMKN 2025 on April 23, 2025 confirmed by the thirteenth/MMKN 2025 on April 30, 2025, agreed {that a} wholly owned subsidiary underneath the MBI Group, named Rantaian Mesra Sdn Bhd, be appointed to implement the Good TLK administration within the state of Selangor,” he mentioned.
The Good Parking mannequin would contain a tripartite collaboration between the native authority (PBT) because the physique figuring out coverage, fee charges and parking zones, Rantaian Mesra because the system coordinator accountable for technical reporting, and the concessionaire appointed, the committee chairman continued.
“This implementation can be formalised via a tripartite settlement between the particular PBT, the concessionaire and Rantaian Mesra to outline clearly every get together’s function, scope and duty that adjust to the prescribed governance,” Ng mentioned.
The concessionaire would make investments RM200 million for the Good Parking infrastructure, together with the set up of 1,800 CCTV cameras within the 4 PBTs concerned within the first part. In the meantime, enforcement remained underneath the jurisdiction of the PBT as supplied for within the Highway Transport Act 1987 (Act 333) and the Native Authorities Act 1976 (Act 171).
The concessionaire is just accountable for system upkeep and fee of workers salaries whereas all enforcement motion, together with the issuance of compound notices, would nonetheless be carried out by PBT officers. The native authorities wouldn’t bear any working prices, however are as a substitute anticipated to obtain greater collections, Ng mentioned.
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