KOTA KINABALU: A controversial plan to put up a hostel at Mount Kinabalu that was stopped by the State Cabinet three years ago is now being reconsidered.
State Tourism, Culture & Environment Minister Datuk Masidi Manjun said that the state was considering the move to revive the project in trying to provide cheaper accommodation for people scaling the mountain.
However, he said that any development plan along the mountain trail would not jeopardise the World Heritage status of Mount Kinabalu and would be in accordance to the environmental impact assessment.
“We have not made any decision but we are just looking at it,” he told reporters after a briefing for Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Ng Yen Yen who was on a working visit to Sabah yesterday.
The controversial RM4.35 million restaurant-cum-rest-house project at the height of 2727 metres was stopped by the state government in June 2006 when the contractor was found to have carried out rock blasting works.
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