KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 6 — Syarikat Prasarana Negara Bhd (Prasarana) today urged the SRK (T) Castlefield school board to allow contractors to start work on the Ampang LRT line extension site.
Prasarana Group Director for Project Development Zulkifli Mohd Yusof said the school should accept the fact that its proposed transfer would not materialise because 80 per cent of the parents of the pupils had voiced their disagreement to the relocation of the school.
To insulate the classrooms from possible distraction as a result of the construction works, he said, Prasarana had agreed to build noise barriers and install air-conditioning units for the classrooms, as the alignment passes through a small section of the school’s field.
“There is no need for the works to be delayed any more. It has been dragging too long and wasting too much of time and resources,” he said in a statement here today.
The proposed seven-kilometre extension of the Ampang Line, which runs from the current Sri Petaling LRT station to the integrated Putra Heights station involves a stretch that passes the edge of the SRK (T) Castlefield school land.
Implemented under the National Key Results Area (NKRA), the LRT Line Extension Project (LEP) involves extension of both LRT lines, the Ampang Line and the Kelana Jaya Line.
In January 2011, the Petaling Jaya Land and District Office had given Prasarana the approval to enter government land within the LRT alignment to start construction work.
In stopping the work, the school board said that it would only allow entry for the contractors if the school was relocated to a 2.4-hectare piece of land in Taman Wawasan, Puchong.
While this meeting continues, the school board remains adamant that no work should start on the site, forcing Prasarana and its contractors to wait. — Bernama
