Exhibition on the Rehabilitation of Sungai Raja PDF Print E-mail
Written by Zulkarnain Sahat   
Thursday, 17 September 2009 17:05

We have organised an exhibition on the Rehabilitation of Sungai Raja recently on 26 March 2009. The event was held at the Bangunan Sultan Abdul Halim lobby from 10:30am to 2:30pm.

Sungai Raja is one of our local rivers that will make an ideal subject for an IRBM project. It runs right in the middle of the city of Alor Setar, part of it is located next to the JPS Kedah headquarters and its banks are used by pedestrians going to and from the Zahir Mosque, government offices and the state museum. The river was also one of the components of the Phase I of the Alor Setar Flood Mitigation Project.

  

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Kedah Launches New Model for IRBM PDF Print E-mail
Written by Syed Unan Mashri   
Friday, 27 February 2009 17:47

Kedah is "the rice bowl of Malaysia" and water has always been essential to the state. The rivers have been used for irrigation, communication linkages between villages and to transport rice grown in the vast area of paddy fields. The relatively gentle flow from Kuala Kedah made navigation easy and Alor Setar was established at the confluence of the Sungai Kedah and Sungai Anak Bukit as a port for the rice trade. The customs office at Tanjung Chali collected taxes for the government and Indian moneylenders provided the finance via the Chettiar houses along the Pekan Cina.

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The view from the top of the newly constructed Tower at Tanjong Chali at the confluence between Sungai Kedah and Sungai Anak Bukit in Alor Setar is magnificent: to the west Sungai Kedah flows towards the coastal town of Kuala Kedah, to the north the Sungai Anak Bukit bring out a grand view of the Zahir Mosque, and to the East the twin bridges are straddling across Sungai Kedah. One can easily imagine the glorious by-gone days of Alor Setar some two hundreds ago at the exactly the same spot: sailing junks and trading ships from India, Middle East, China and far off places moored along the banks to take our rice, spices and other produce, sampans criss-crossing the rivers, workers loading and unloading goods from the ships, and the buzzing activities along Pekan Melayu and Pekan Cina. Could this history be made into one of the main attractions for tourists and visitors to Alor Setar?

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