KUALA LUMPUR: The Selangor government will instruct the factory responsible for the pollution of Sungai Selangor, which led to water disruptions to over 1.2 million people in the Klang Valley, to vacate the land it occupies.
At a press conference, Selangor Menteri Besar Amirudin Shari said the factory in the Sungai Gong Industrial Area in Rawang had already been closed.
He said the state had instructed that the land be vacated as it had breached the Gombak District and Land Office’s terms. An official notice will be issued to the factory owners on Monday.
The land is to be vacated and handed back to its rightful owner.
“We have asked the owner to rehabilitate the land. The building has to be demolished,” he said, adding this will be done within the next three to four months, though the site will be closed.
“We have also asked Air Selangor and Tenaga Nasional Berhad to cut water and electricity supply to the factory to prevent it from restarting operations,” he said at the Air Selangor headquarters today.
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