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A Jalil & Co Sdn Bhd is a
registered estate agency and valuer located at
Putrajaya.
The agency has a strong presence in
Putrajaya with a team of
professionally qualified and licensed negotiators, each having an
extensive knowledge of the major residential and commercial areas of
Ipoh and surrounding
districts.
Putrajaya is a planned city, located 25 km south of Kuala Lumpur,
that serves as the federal administrative centre of Malaysia. The
seat of government was shifted in 1999 from Kuala Lumpur to
Putrajaya, due to the overcrowding and congestion in the Kuala
Lumpur areas. Nevertheless, Kuala Lumpur remains Malaysia's national
capital, being the seat of the King and Parliament, as well as the
country's commercial and financial centre. Putrajaya was the
brainchild of former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammad. In
2001, Putrajaya became Malaysia's third Federal Territory after
Kuala Lumpur and Labuan.
Named after the first Malaysian Prime Minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman
Putra, the city is situated within the Multimedia Super Corridor,
beside the recently developed Cyberjaya. In sanskrit, the words "putra"
or "putera" means "prince" or "male child," and "jaya" means
"success" or "victory." The development of Putrajaya started in
early 1990s, and today major landmarks have been completed and the
population is expected to grow in the near future.
History and Design
Putrajaya, which was originally Prang Besar was opened in 1918 as
Air Hitam by the British. Its original land space was 800 acres (3.2
km2), which was later expanded to 8,000 acres (32 km2). Prang Besar
later expanded and merged with its surrounding estates such as Estet
Raja Alang, Estet Galloway and Estet Bukit Prang.
The vision to have a new Federal Government Administrative Centre to
replace Kuala Lumpur as the administrative capital emerged in the
late 1980s, during the tenure of Malaysia's 4th Prime Minister, Dr.
Mahathir Bin Mohamad. The new city was proposed to be located
between Kuala Lumpur and the new
KL International Airport
(KLIA).
The Federal government negotiated with the state of Selangor on the
prospect of another Federal Territory and in the mid-1990s, the
Federal government paid a substantial amount of money to Selangor
for approximately 11,320 acres (45.8 km2) of land in Prang Besar,
Selangor. As a result of this land purchase, the state of Selangor
now completely surrounds two Federal Territories within its borders,
namely Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya.
Planned as a garden and intelligent city, 38% of the area is
reserved for green spaces by emphasising the enhancement of natural
landscape. A network of open spaces and wide boulevards were
incorporated to the plan. Construction began in August 1995 and it
was Malaysia's biggest project and one of Southeast Asia's largest
with estimated final cost of US$ 8.1 billion. The entire project was
designed and constructed by Malaysian companies with only 10% of the
materials imported.
The Asian Financial Crisis of 1997/1998 had somewhat slowed the
development of Putrajaya. In 1999, 300 staff members of the Prime
Minister's office moved to Putrajaya and the remaining government
servants moved in 2005. On 1 February 2001 Tun Dr. Mahathir declared
Putrajaya as a Federal Territory with the ceremony of handing over
Putrajaya township from the Selangor state authorities.
In 2002, a rail link called KLIA Transit was opened, linking
Putrajaya to both Kuala Lumpur and KL International Airport in
Sepang. However, construction of the Putrajaya Monorail which was
intended to be the city's metro system, was suspended due to costs.
One of the monorail suspension bridges in Putrajaya remains unused.
In 2007, the population of Putrajaya was estimated to be over
30,000, which comprised mainly government servants. Government
servants have been encouraged to relocate to the city through a
variety of government subsidy and loan programs.
In April 2013 the Putrajaya government signed a letter of intent (LOI)
with the government of Sejong City in South Korea to mark
cooperation between the two cities.
As of
2012 almost all of Malaysia's governmental ministries had relocated
to Putrajaya.
Sources: Wikipedia
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