The federal government has provided an additional RM60 million for surveying native customary lands (NCR) in Sarawak, Natural Resources and Environment Minister Dougles Uggah Embas said today.       

He said with the additional allocation, the Sarawak Land and Survey Department would be able to survey between 300,000 and 400,000 hectares of NCR land this year and next.   

"After successfully surveying 30,000ha of land at a cost of RM20 million last year, the government has decided to set aside the additional alocation for the same purpose the next two years," he said in a statement to **Bernama.     

Unggah said he hoped owners of NCR land not listed in earlier survey work would apply to the department to have their lands surveyed within the two-year period.      

- Bernama