The Evolution Of Infrastructure Planning And Development In Malaysia 1957 Onwards – Lessons Learnt
The project monitoring identifies and remedies failures and delays in the implementation of the development activities and measures the physical and monetary performance against the achievement of the objectives. A good monitoring system also ensures accountability and transparency on the part of implementing agencies (PWD), provides an avenue for remedial actions and ensures that programs and projects are implemented as scheduled, within specified cost.
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CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
Planning may be thought of as a process for determining appropriate future action through a sequence of choices. To make these choices under uncertain conditions, planners need to collect comprehensive information about the past, the present and the future. In discussing the relationship between planning and information, it can be argued, that planning can be perceived as gathering information to reduce uncertainty. Hence, planning practice depends heavily on the availability and quality of information. Moreover, the quality of planning and its decision process can be substantially improved when the required information is handled appropriately and efficiently. Clearly than the effective planning requires descriptive, predictive and prescriptive information input (Webster 1993; 1994). As planning is always oriented towards the future, forecasting becomes a necessary part of it. Following through the planning process, planners attempt to understand and define current issues, foresee future developments, and propose feasible plans based on available information. PWD can play an important role as a partner in this process of planning by providing valuable technical information in decision making. Successful and effective implementation of projects undertaken by PWD also needs cooperation from all parties involved. PWD would also like to be involved and be a contributing partner in the planning and decision making at the highest level/central agencies. Effective communication between government agencies at this level is crucial in achieving our set vision, mission and strategy. There are challenges for us to resolve in the future. We must be customer focus in implementing projects since our clients are more sophisticated than before and they really know what are their needs and requirements. Greeneries, pollution and environmental issues have to be considered in the planning and during implementation stage. REFERENCES • • •
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NATIONAL CONVENTION: TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING – 50 YEARS
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