{"id":157774,"date":"2021-10-24T15:33:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T15:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=157774"},"modified":"2021-10-24T16:01:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T16:01:17","slug":"special-focus-in-six-states-to-boost-socio-economic-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=157774","title":{"rendered":"Special focus in six states to boost socio-economic development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>By Hazimah Sukri<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, 24 October 2021: The government will give special focus to Sarawak, Sabah, Kelantan, Terengganu, Kedah and Perlis in its efforts to boost socio-economic development in these states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister, Dato&#8217; Sri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said at least 50 percent of the overall federal basic development allocated in the 12<sup>th<\/sup> Malaysia Plan will be distributed to these six states. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will cover the provisions of basic infrastructure, digitalisation, education, healthcare services and economic development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dato&#8217; Sri Ismail said this in his speech on Saturday (23 October) night to mark the launching of &#8216;Keluarga Malaysia&#8217; at the Borneo Convention Centre in Kuching, Sarawak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime Minister said the idea of &#8220;Keluarga Malaysia&#8221;, the brainchild of current government, was not a rhetoric or a mere slogan but a rousing call by the government to uphold the interest and well being of the people, similar to the values of caring for a family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He gave an example of a family with a child who is lagging in the education and deserve extra attention, a situation similar to his administration&#8217;s effort to assist certain states that are falling behind in development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The same goes with the government&#8217;s administration today, members of Keluarga Malaysia like those in the Bottom 40 and Middle 40 who are affected by COVID-19 pandemic, will consistently be the focus for government assistance.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He hoped that state governments would support the various &#8220;Keluarga Malaysia&#8221; programmes and initiatives such as <em>Rumah Ikram Keluarga<\/em> <em>Malaysia<\/em> and <em>Pakej Peranti Keluarga Malaysia,<\/em> aimed at lifting peoples&#8217; economic burden. *** <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source: New Straits Times<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hazimah Sukri KUALA LUMPUR, 24 October 2021: The government will give special focus to Sarawak, Sabah, Kelantan, Terengganu, Kedah and Perlis in its efforts&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":472,"featured_media":157779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[156,12,472],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/74832a58-3177-43d0-b6ea-85ab75a5e825.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/472"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157774"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157838,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157774\/revisions\/157838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/157779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}