KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 15 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim wants the Universiti Malaya (UM) Student Residence project to serve as a model for development management that is clean, efficient, and free from leakages or the wastage of public funds.

He said the implementation of this project must draw lessons from the shortcomings of past project management which led to cost overruns, delays, and abandoned construction sites ultimately resulting in losses for the nation.

“How much national funding has been wasted or lost due to poor management? Therefore, vice-chancellor, ensure that UM and this Student Residence project become an example for other agencies to emulate.

“You can do a great job, a clean job, an incorruptible job, and one carried out with full dedication. This is a real challenge for us,” he said during his inaugural address at the launch of the UM Student Residence project here today.