SHAH ALAM – Syarikat Perumahan Negara Berhad (SPNB) today launched six new designs for the Rumah Mesra Rakyat (RMR) scheme, including stilt houses.
Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Zuraida Kamaruddin said the new designs will provide applicants with more options compared with only two variations previously.
She said Pahang will be the first state in the country to have such houses under the RMR scheme, and construction will begin soon.
“Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah had previously asked for stilt houses to be built to prevent floods,” she told Bernama after visiting the new SPNB headquarters here today.
To date, a total of 47,153 houses under the RMR scheme have been built nationwide.
This year, SPNB has been entrusted by the government to build 3,000 RMR houses, of which 749 units are currently under construction, with another 1,531 in the process of signing agreements.
Meanwhile, SPNB chief executive Datuk Haslee Isnin said besides the new designs, there have been improvements made to the existing RMR insurance coverage policy for new applicants.
“Apart from the fire and flood insurance policies, applicants will also receive coverage against accident as well as benefits for badal haji (haj by proxy), khairat kematian (death benefit) and hospitalisation payment of RM100 per day,” he said.
Haslee also said that SPNB is in the final stage of obtaining approval from the Finance Ministry to increase the monthly income limit for eligible buyers from RM3,000 to RM5,000. – Bernama, March 9, 2021
