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time providing suitable

infrastructure facilities.

land will then be made available for

More

industrial use and

the land

land cost will be lowered. If the answer is in the

affirmative, how would the Government go about doing it?

answer

is not in the

SE CRE TARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS: Sir, I think, in short,

the

the affirmative.

It

is not our

intention to

re-zone

·

agricultural land in

order to

Indeed,

facilitate commercial or industrial development.

we would really like to see better control in the use of

agricultural land, really to prevent further development

or industrial use. I do not feel myself,

I think

for commercial or

Sir, that there is, in fact, a shortage of land.

that the amount of land which is being provided in the new

towns for commercial

and

industrial development

is

the land is disposed of

sufficient for the purpose and

generally in accordance with demand, SO our planning

really is to provide the jobs where the populations are in

the fringes of the new towns and this will be done on land

which is specifically zoned for that purpose.

MR. TAI: Sir, can the Secretary elucidate how he offers

the incentive by providing land at low cost?

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