{"id":3656,"date":"2013-01-29T10:49:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T02:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=3656"},"modified":"2013-01-29T10:49:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T02:49:56","slug":"strangling-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/strangling-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Strangling Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The federal government\u2019s(FG) extend of control in what would be local affairs in many countries\u2019 structure of governance is pervasive. Here we highlight some of the more nonsensical examples.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dysfunctional Transport system<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Pic4-story1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3658\" style=\"padding-right: 40px;\" title=\"Bad transport\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Pic4-story1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Pic4-story1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Pic4-story1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Pic4-story1-262x175.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Public bus arrangement such as routes, number of buses and frequency of bus travels in the states are decided by the FG<\/li>\n<li>Taxi meters, fares and licenses distribution are also decided by the FG<\/li>\n<li>Control paralysis \u2013 Finance ministry, transport ministry, Prime Minister Department are just 3 of many agencies involved in managing public transport.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cumbersome Civil servant hiring<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Pic4-story21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3660\" style=\"padding-right: 40px;\" title=\"Civil service hiring\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Pic4-story21-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Pic4-story21-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Pic4-story21-262x175.jpg 262w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Pic4-story21.jpg 611w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All high-level administrative officers in the state bureaucracy are subjected to vetting and hiring by the public service department, a federal agency<\/li>\n<li>All local council heads are appointed by the FG, while local councils are under the state government<\/li>\n<li>In November 2012, Selayang Municipal Council president was transferred from his position within one day after he revealed about the Batu Cave condominium scandal details<\/li>\n<li>Perak state secretary, which takes order from the FG, was blocking the state assembly speaker V. Sivakumar\u2019s every attempt to convene the state assembly in 2009<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Shackling Land policies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Pic4-story3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3661\" style=\"padding-right: 40px;\" title=\"Land policies\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Pic4-story3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Pic4-story3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Pic4-story3-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Pic4-story3-262x175.jpg 262w, https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Pic4-story3.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As stated in 9th schedule of the federal constitution, land matters are the prerogative of the state government<\/li>\n<li>In November 2008, the Perak PR state government announced it was giving freehold titles to all eligible Perak residents<\/li>\n<li>Almost immediately the FG through the National Land Council made pronouncement to bar the Perak state government from doing so.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government\u2019s(FG) extend of control in what would be local affairs in many countries\u2019 structure of governance is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[281],"class_list":["post-3656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-story","tag-states-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}