Fw: LCCF - Draft Letter to Kettha
sinha....@gmail.com
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Dear KY,
The letter is brilliant. Some small suggested amendments for your consideration. TQ
Regards
sinha
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Hi Again Team,
This is my draft letter to Kettha to be copied to Greentech. Please comment ya? If all agree, then only we will issue the letter.
KSU
Ministry
Y.Bhg. Dato',
THE LOW CARBON CITIES FRAMEWORK AND ASSESSMENT SYSTEM (LCCFAS) - Pilot projects, Training and Action Plans
I have pleasure to refer the above. I am writing on behalf of my colleagues who have been involved in the preparation of the document that was produced for your Ministry. Although initially it was prepared under the Malaysian Institute of Planners (MIP), it has now evolved into an individual involvement as MIP has not played a significant role in the follow up of the l LCCFAS. The MIP Council has also given the green light and left it to the 4 members of the MIP team to undertake whatever is necessary for the implementation of the LCCFAS.
For Dato's information, the four MIP members, namely Puan Norliza Hashim, Puan Khairiah Talha, Puan Mazrina Khalid and Puan Noraida Saluddin , together with Mr. BK Sinha (I feel that we should not have salutations for ourselves) and Dr. Faridah Safii, have continuously given full cooperation to your Ministry and Green Tech Malaysia through presentation of papers at workshops, seminars and meetings. These have been undertaken since before the launch of the document by the Prime Minister of Malaysia at the IGEM 2011. We have undertaken all these activities for free ( as the honorarium was paid up only until the final submission of the document), due to the passion we have for the cause and to see through the implementation and adoption of the LCCFAS by all agencies of government.
Our group has also been approached by your Ministry to undertake three projects - the training and capacity building; Pilot projects for Low Carbon Cities and the Action Plan for Putrajaya and Cyberjaya. Members from our team have attended meetings and workshops. We have submitted the revised TOR and also the proposed fees for the above as requested by your Ministry. We have yet to sign any contracts for any of the above, and yet works have been undertaken.
This commitment and dedication given by our team has taken a toll on us. For your information, many of us run our own firms and have full time jobs in our organizations. Spending hours and days outside of our own full time jobs for LCCFAS has meant time and resources taken away from our full time activities and businesses. We have spent energy, time, resources without a single claim to the Ministry nor Green Tech. Added to that we receive many more invitations to present papers and workshops for free, without any compensation for the time, energy and money spent.
Hence, we seek your cooperation to give us recognition for our contribution, by acknowledging that we are qualified, accredited professionals that are entitled to payment for our services. Without this, we feel that we can no longer it is becoming extremely difficult for us to commit ourselves to the cause of seeing the LCCFAS through to adoption and implementation. You may understand that there is a limit to our commitment. We earnestly feel a need to contribute to a national agenda but we are sapped of our energies and our earnings may be compromised and thus seek your kind considerations.
We also seek your assistance in ensuring that our services, if truly required by your Ministry, is given due recognition. We have quoted our fees based on the Ministry of Finance Malaysia's regulations. Having had many projects with government agencies, our group understand the rules and regulations with regards to financial submissions.
I act on behalf of the group with their full blessings and shall be their spokesperson -being the one with the longest experience in the profession.
I welcome any further discussions on this issue.
Your response will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
cc GreenTech Malaysia
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Khairiah Talha
BK Sinha
I think that is an excellent idea. TQ
Regards
Sinha
mazrin...@gmail.com
I have no further comment to the letter.
sinha....@gmail.com
Dear KY,
I woke up this morning shaking!!! It was a bad dream, but I soon realised that it was also real. It was a fear I verbalised to some of you recently.
With my increased intensity of involvement in Cyberjaya (compared to 3 months ago); I am convinced that LCCF&AS can quickly fail and/or become another sedate Government effort which is soon superseded by another ‘flavour of the day’ due to the fact that a strong willed, directional and responsible effort to collect robust data is absent.
Every single datum forms the cells of a good carbon calculation, without which it will be a result without standing.
It is my suggestion that the relevant authorities (KeTTHA / MGTC) take responsibility or outsource the same to LCGC as we have already opened the Pandora’s box to the outside world in the form of JRI/NEDO!!!!!
One of the pertinent concerns of one of the HODs of KeTTHA 2 nights ago in Holiday Inn, Glenmarie was whether LCCF&AS had gone through an international peer review. I take the cue from here as the beginning of the end IF positive action is not taken. Coincidently this HOD was Mr Anba from KeTTHA’s international division.
This data gathering centre should maintain records of who is supplying this data, how and why the values of the data stand as they do, and must be agile enough to constantly monitor the credibility of all data within its record to ensure they are updated in a timely manner so as to ensure they remain current, vibrant and robust. In technical terms and within circles of research of sustainability this is called COC or ‘chain of custody’.
No meagre task I agree but nevertheless absolutely necessary for LCCF&AS to evolve into a world class framework and assessment system. This goal is, I am sure, something all of us want to achieve, no?
In the Q&A session 2 nights ago I did reply Mr Anba by saying that my team and I can bet our last dollar that we have developed a rough diamond and that the training, pilot project involvement AND the gathering of robust data are the mechanisms to polish this diamond before it lands on the dainty fingers of a lady!!!! (my exact words!) but I fear that the true weight of the importance of robust data collection went right over their heads and hence this email.
I leave it to your wisdom to reflect and suggest the way forward. TQ & sorry to lean so heavy on a beautiful Saturday morning.
Regards
sinha
