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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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