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INTRODUCTION

The Ministry of Works or Kementerian Kerja Raya (KKR) was established as the main
Ministry in Malaysia which is fully responsible for the planning, construction and
maintenance of the infrastructure of roads and buildings. Indirectly, the Ministry
is also responsible for ensuring the development of the construction industry and
engineering, and human resources can contribute to socio-economic development
of the country. After nearly 60 years of its inception, the Ministry has managed to build
and maintain infrastructure and key buildings and developing technical expertise in
the construction and engineering industries.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND Borneo Highway is slated to be THE
ACTIVITIES transportation backbone of the states
of Sabah and Sarawak and will play
Prime Minister Launched The a major role to open up economic
Construction of Pan Borneo Highway corridors and opportunities in areas it
transverses.

Prime Minister, Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib
Tun Abdul Razak has launched the
construction and upgrading of Sarawak
Pan Borneo Highway Phase 1; Jalan
Nyabau to Bakun junctions (43km) and
expected to be completed by the end
of 2017.

Pan Borneo Highway Sarawak was Signing Ceremony of a Memorandum of
officially launched by the Prime Minister Understanding (MOU) For Construction
in Bintulu on 31 March 2015 attended of Pan Borneo Highway Sarawak
by Chief Minister of Sarawak, Datuk
Patinggi Tan Sri Haji Adenan bin Haji A signing ceremony of a memorandum
Satem. Pan Borneo Highway (BPA) is a of understanding (MOU) for construction
federal government project and part of the 1,090km Pan Borneo Sarawak
of Highway Network Development Plan Highway involving the federal
(HNDP) 2010 Ministry of Works. government, state government and

The scopes of work of the project would
increase the standard way of R3 (JKR
Standard), 2-lane single carriageway
to R5, a 4-lane dual carriageway. Pan
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