1Bagan Mobile service team's first community service

WHEN the 1Bagan Mobile service team conducted its first community service, they only expected a handful of people to turn up at the Tow Boo Kong Temple in Jalan Raja Uda, Butterworth.

But they were proven wrong when more than 125 people thronged the temple premises to take advantage of the free medical checkup, which included sugar level and blood pressure screening, from 8.30am till noon on Sunday.

Bagan MCA Youth chief David Chua said eight volunteers from the Segi Nursing College on the island conducted the medical check-up with help from Sungai Dua government health clinic representatives.

"The state Welfare Department also sent a six-member team to register the poor for welfare aid. More than 20 people registered for welfare aid on that day."

"At the same time, the Election Commission also set up at booth and managed to register about 100 new voters." he said in a press statement on Monday.

Chua, who is also Bagan parliamentary Barisan Nasional(BN) co-ordinator, said MCA members from the Bagan division turned up in full force to help.

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The Star.Metro 09.09.2010

State should refer to BN constituency coordinators

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SEBERANG PERAI (Aug 29, 2010): Barisan Nasional (BN) representatives appointed by the Prime Minister’s Department as “constituency coordinators” in areas won by the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) in the last general election insist they are legitimate federal officers whom the state should refer to when applying for federal funding.

MCA Bagan division youth chief David Chua, who is the coordinator for the Bagan constituency, where the MP is Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, said the state’s two municipal councils would benefit by referring their applications to the coordinators who are in a position to evaluate the needs of the people in the area.

He explained that the coordinators were officers on the ground to represent the State Development Officer (SDO) who is appointed by the Prime Minister’s Department to oversee federal allocations in Penang.

“These are federal funds the councils are asking for. So the applications would have to go through federal officers,” he said.

Chua said when announcing the BN’s 1Bagan Community Service Team recently. Also present was state MIC chairman Datuk P.K. Subbaiyah, who is the Bagan Dalam state constituency coordinator.

On Aug 19, Penang executive councillor Chow Kon Yeow, who is also the state DAP chairman, had revealed that the SDO had told the two councils at a meeting on Aug 4 to get the agreement from the BN coordinators before applying for funding for next year.

The state government has since asked for the directive to be made in writing and for a copy of the meeting’s minutes.

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop, later told reporters the councils were merely asked to discuss the use of the funds with the coordinators.

Although the Penang island and Seberang Perai municipal councils (MPPP and MPSP) had in the past applied for their allocations to the Housing and Local Government Ministry, this was changed after the last general election when PR won the state. The councils were then required to apply through the SDO instead.

Calling SDO Nik Ali Mat Yunos his "boss", Chua took the PR state government to task for its barrage of criticisms against him. -- theSun

The Sun: 29 Aug,2010
By Himanshu Bhatt