A state-owned company that implements the national transportation plan has been revamped as the government mounts strong efforts to improve public transportation system in Malaysia- Business Times learnt that the top management at Syarikat Prasanara Negara Bhd has been tweaked, as the company prepares to take on bigger projects recently announced, including Kuala Lumpur's first mass rapid transit system (MRT)- The MRT system project which comes under the government's Economic Transformation Programme, is expected to start in July- Most of the organisational changes at Prasanara took effect from January 1 this year and they include some reshuffling and also new hirings- It is learnt that the revamp of Prasarana's organisational structure is aimed, among others, at placing the company's core business at the forefront and ensuring that solid support is given to the respective core business teams- Prasarana's former group director for infrastructure Zulkifli Mohd Yusuf has now assumed the responsibility of the company's project development division, which is expected to be tasked with the Light Rail Transit (LRT) extension project (known as the LEP), the new MRT project and the property development department- The company's chief operating officer for buses, Datuk Mohamed Hazlan Hussain, has been redesignated as a director for buses and now tasked with the group's bus strategy- He, however, is still assuming the post of chief operating officer (Bus) for Rapid KL- Among the new faces brought into the company is Jaizal Kamar Jalaludin, who has been appointed director of human capital- Jaizal's last position was as global human resources manager with Dunham Bush Holdings Bhd- He has also served Malaysian Airline System Bhd, British American Tobacco Malaysia Bhd and Cadbury Confectionary (M) Sdn Bhd- Rapid Penang Sdn Bhd's chief executive officer Azhar Ahmad will remain in his current position- Prasanara's general manager of group communications Ebi Azly Abdullah has been appointed chief operating officer for the company's wholly-owned subsidiary, Panorama Langkawi Sdn Bhd (PLSB)- In his new capacity, Ebi has been tasked with further promoting and positioning PLSB as a leading tourist destination in Langkawi- Meanwhile, a new department known as customer experience management, has been set up by the company and it will be managed by transport planning and commercial director V- Ravindran- The new unit is said to work on identifying trends and chart a new strategy at improving the overall customer experience for all of SPNB's transportation products- ...

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