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Finding your way around Putrajaya |
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Written by Metro - Central
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Tuesday, 08 August 2006 |
VISITORS to Putrajaya who need to find their way around will benefit from a comprehensive map available from the end of August.
Important buildings, landmarks and popular tourist spots will be highlighted in the map currently being printed with the routes marked out for convenient travel within Putrajaya. The new Bahasa Malaysia names for certain areas will also be incorporated into the map.
Putrajaya Corporation president Tan Sri Samsudin Osman said the map would be sold at RM10 at information centres throughout the garden city and eventually at bookshops in the Klang Valley.
Samsudin was responding to questions from the media on certain name changes after releasing fish fry into the Putrajaya Lake at the Lake Recreation Centre off the Putrajaya Wetland in Precinct 13 on Thursday.
“Signboards under the management of PJC are in the process of being changed to reflect the new names of certain areas and this is being done in stages,” he told reporters present.
In June, PJC officially renamed the Boulevard as Persiaran Perdana and the Promenade as Sisiran Putrajaya with immediate effect, in the initial move to change the names of places and roads here from English to Bahasa Malaysia.
PJC decided to use Bahasa Malaysia names to replace the English ones in the federal government administrative centre. Terms like “parcel” that referred to government offices would eventually be changed to “kompleks” (complex).
On the release of fish fry to boost the fish population in the Putrajaya Lake, Samsudin said PJC was happy to work with the Fisheries Department to gain knowledge on fish management strategies and to ensure stability within the fish population at the lake and Putrajaya Wetland.
To officiate their new working relationship, Samsudin who is also Chief Secretary to the Government and Fisheries Department director-general Datuk Junaidi Che Ayub released 10,000 fish fry into the lake.
The exercise is one of the components of the Putrajaya Lake – Sustainable Environmental Management programme using available resources at minimum cost.
Regular monitoring is carried out via proper sampling procedures to gather data to ensure the fish population did not dwindle and species types were maintained. Species not compatible with the lake, especially predatory fish like “toman”, were culled.
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