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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1989

WORK ON FIRST UFI PROJECT IN SHA TIN TO COMMENCE

IMPROVEMENT (UFI)

CONSTRUCTION WORK ON THE FIRST URBAN FRINGE PROJECT IN SHA TIN WILL START AT THE END OF THIS MONTH.

$1.1 MILLION PROJECT TO A CONTRACT-SIGNING CEREMONY FOR THE

HELD AT THE SHA RECONSTRUCT A VAN TRACK AT SHAP YI WAT VILLAGE WAS TIN DISTRICT OFFICE THIS (WEDNESDAY) AFTERNOON.

SPEAKING AFTER THE VICTOR YUNG, SAID OVER THE MADE CONTINUOUS EFFORTS TO ENVIRONMENT OF VILLAGES IN PUBLIC WORKS SCHEME.

SHA TIN CEREMONY,

DISTRICT OFFICER, DECADES, PAST SEVEN

THE GOVERNMENT THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND THE IMPROVE

NEW TERRITORIES THE

THE THROUGH

MR

HAD

LOCAL LOCAL

RAPID

POPULATION GROWTH

"NEVERTHELESS, WITH THE

IN THE NEW THE NEW PROGRAMMES

TERRITORIES AND CONSEQUENT URBANISATION IN AREAS SURROUNDING TOWNS, THERE IS A NEED TO RATIONALISE AND EXTEND TO IMPROVE LIVING STANDARDS IN THESE AREAS,"

THIS

EXISTING MR YUNG SAID.

THE OBJECTIVE,

"TO HELP ACHIEVE DEPARTMENT (TDD) HAS INTRODUCED THE UFI SCHEME.

TERRITORY

DEVELOPMENT

AND NEW OUT

"WHILE TDD CONTROLS THE ALLOCATION OF FUNDS, THE CITY TERRITORIES ADMINISTRATION (CNTA) ACTS AS THE AGENCY FOR CARRYING SOME OF THE WORKS FOR THE UFI PROJECTS.'

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A VAN TRACK AT WHILE NOTING THAT THE PROJECT TO RECONSTRUCT

IN SHA TIN. MR YUNG SHAP YI WAT VILLAGE WAS THE FIRST UFI PROJECT

DISTRICT SAID THIS WAS ALSO THE FIRST CONTRACT AWARDED BY THE SHA TIN

OF APPROVED OFFICE TO A COMPANY ON THE LANDS AND WORKS BRANCH'S LIST CONTRACTORS.

ONLY CONTRACTORS ON THE CNTA THE DISTRICT OFFICE ON

HE EXPLAINED THAT IN THE PAST DISTRICT CONTRACTORS' LIST WERE EMPLOYED BY CONTRACTS WORTH UP TO $500,000.

WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF A NEW SET OF PROCEDURES IN APRIL 1987,

WERE EMPOWERED TO OFFICES

AWARD OF THE DISTRICT WORKS SECTIONS

ON THE CONTRACTS AT BETWEEN $500,000 AND $1.5 MILLION TO CONTRACTORS LANDS AND WORKS BRANCH'S LIST, HE SAID.

VILLAGE HAS BREN SUPERVISED BY THE WORKS

THE $1.1 MILLION UFI PROJECT AT SHAP YI WAT DESIGNED AND THE CONSTRUCTION WORK WILL BE SECTION OF THE SHA TIN DISTRICT OFFICE.

COMPLETE,

INVOLVES THE PROJECT, WHICH WILL TAKE SIX MONTHS TO

A 3.5-METRE THE RECONSTRUCTION OF 616 METRES OF VAN TRACK TO PROVIDE

PLACES AND ASSOCIATED WIDE CARRIAGEWAY WITH A TURNING AREA, PASSING DRAINAGE.

ON COMPLETION, THE VAN TRACK WILL PROVIDE IMPROVED ACCESS SHA TIN PASS ROAD TO SHAF Y1 WAT VILLAGE.

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