MELAKA – The Melaka government aims to set up a world-class industrial area in Alor Gajah to attract more investments by Fortune 500 companies in the state next year, the legislative assembly was told today.
State Investment, Industry, Entrepreneur Development and Cooperative chairman Datuk Seri Ab Rauf Yusoh said the proposed new industrial area would cover an area of 2,023 ha.
He said this in response to a supplementary question by Fairul Nizam Roslan (Asahan-BN) on the state government’s steps to attract more investors to Melaka next year.
To Fairul’s earlier question on foreign investment value up to November 2022 and number of job opportunities created in the state, he said the statistics had not been finalised but as of June, the total investment in Melaka approved by the Malaysian Industrial Development Authority amounted to RM3.24 billion.
He said the investments were from various premier sectors such as agriculture, fisheries, plantations and commodities, manufacturing and services.
“Referring to the Social Security Organisation’s MYFutureJobs portal, as of November 17, there are 8,169 job vacancies,” he added. – Bernama, December 13, 2022
