Developers in the Klang Valley are up in arms over the deliberate bureaucratic delay by Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) to allow them to sell the houses earmarked for bumiputeras to others after having met the necessary conditions required by the Housing Ministry.

In order to obtain the release of the bumi lots for resale to non-bumis, developers have to advertised in the major papers and wait for a period of three months. However recently, DBKL has imposed further conditions requiring developers to do road-shows to try and sell to them to bumis.

Doing road-shows and advertising in the major newspaper is not cheap and just because DBKL wants developers to sell to bumis, the cost of this have to be borne by the developer or passed on to non-bumis.

However, what is even more exasperating is that after having complied with all these conditions, DBKL proceeded to only release 30% of the bumi lots for resale to non-bumis and further demanded that another round of advertisement should be carried out before they can consider releasing the remaining lots.

Developers in the Klang Valley have a right to know whether DBKL is willing to foot the cost of advertisement in order to comply with the additional conditions? Perhaps it would also be pertinent to ask DBKL whether there is any hidden motives for this deliberate bureaucratic delay.