Govt plans mitigation measures to address sinkhole risks

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The government is planning mitigation measures to address the potential risk of sinkholes, following the recent incident involving an Indian tourist that has heightened public concern.   Works Minister Datuk Seri Alexander Nanta Linggi told reporters on Friday (Aug 30) that the issue was brought to the Cabinet, which has decided that immediate action is required to identify high-risk areas.   Read more at https://tinyurl.com/5ekmb8zz   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news  SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar  LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Good, good.

00:02Okay?

00:03Okay, thank you everyone.

00:05So we at JKR, actually, help in terms of technical contributions and so on.

00:15What do you call it?

00:17Assets.

00:18Huh?

00:19Assets.

00:20There are also assets, but more than that, we are knowledge-based.

00:26Because JKR is related to finance and so on.

00:30So, Mr. Datuk, do you have any information about the areas that are currently in risk?

00:36We haven't specifically, but I understand that there are a lot of ministries involved in the development in Kuala Lumpur,

00:50in Baklak, and also other agencies.

00:53So there is indeed, what is said, we try to know for sure.

00:58Like Ceron, we have known for sure, there are more than 2,000 locations in Ceron.

01:05And it has already happened.

01:07And here it is discussed, right?

01:10In this new cabinet, in order to move forward, the government will be more focused

01:16on how to overcome or avoid the incident by using science and technology, AI and so on.

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