KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Armed Forces veterans, who do not have their first house after retirement, can apply for the facility through the Department of Veterans Affairs (JHEV).
Secretary-general of the Armed Forces Veteran Association (PVATM), Lt Col (Rtd) Tajul Ariffin Chu Johari, said a team of army engineers could build a three-room house under the programme provided they had the land, ancestral land or lands owned by their parents.
“The matter is being handled by the National Blue Ocean Strategy programme or National Blue Ocean Strategy (NBOS 7) introduced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak in 2012,” he said at the opening of the Malaysian Ex-British Army Association (PBABM) sixth annual general meeting here today.
He said PVATM, which carried out a study on some of these veterans without a house even after retirement, had asked the government to give a special quota under the Public Housing Project to them on condition they had the required land.
Tajul Ariffin said the government had allocated RM45,000 per unit for the construction of these houses in the peninsula and RM50,000 for Sabah and Sarawak. --BERNAMA