The State Road Programme, which is under this Ministry, covers mainly the construction of Major Town Roads, Minor Town and Suburban Roads, Development Areas and Feeder Roads, the taking over of District council Roads, urban traffic management and Road Rehabilitation. To provide good road infrastructure, and public facilities to allow the rapid growth of industry, tourism, agriculture and forestry sectors. The Industrial Estates Study in Malaysia conducted by the Economic Planning Unit in Kuala Lumpur has identified the Principal Growth Areas for formulating a national industrial development strategy which is to concentrate industrial development in selected growth areas so as to disperse the benefits of Industrial Growth in the less developed areas. Each PGA is basically a grouping of towns linked with good transport networks and communication system.
Development are to be emphasised in secondary centres within each of there PGAs.
Sabah is endowed with a lot of natural resources which are located in remote areas in Sabah. The 7th Malaysia Plan encourages the establishment of downstream industries and good access in and out for both raw material and finished industrial product. The other significant programs in the 7th Malaysia Plan which provides mutual growth are economic cooperation to both Sabah and Sarawak is the completion of upgrading the highway linking Sabah and Sarawak and the highway linking Sabah with the Federal Territory of Labuan. The tourism sector , particularly the eco-tourism has been identified as a growth sector in Sabah and is given emphasis by the government to promote this particular sector. The success of the Government's Policy to promote this sector lies in the level of accessibility to some of these areas.