Sabah is on target to wipe out poverty. A "focus group" had been set up to monitor projects to ensure that the government's to wipe out poverty were carried out efficiently.
State Poverty Eradication Steering Commitee meeting
The State government and Federal government will continue to implement various poverty eradication programs which involve the hardcore poor and the poor under E-kasih.
Various Poverty Eradication Programs registered under E-Kasih
The programs under E-kasih include Agropolitan, Mini Estate Sejahtera (MESEJ), PPRT farm, Program Bantuan Rumah (PBR) and 1Azam program. The State government is also studying the possibility of developing another PPRT farm in Keningau, as addition of the existing PPRT farm which are in Kalabkan, Tawau and Tongod. There are 4 Agropolitan projects which in Kota Belud, Pitas, Kemabong and Beluran being implemented by SEDIA under Sabah Development Corridor (SDC), with total allocation of RM239 million.
"Eradicating poverty was one of the main objectives of BN in the last general elections", said Chief Minister Datuk Musa Aman.
The PPRT Kalabakan and Tongod that was developed with the cooperation of Sawit Kinabalu Berhad now was able to pay RM400 dividebd to 1167 people of KIRMT (Ketua Isi RUmah Termiskin) in both Kalabakan and Tongod. Besides that, the State government also suggested to add the number of MESEJ (including MESEJ Mikro) from 44 MESEJ/MESEJ Mikro which are currently implied in Sabah, to 50 MESEJ under 10th Malaysia Plan.
Meanwhile. Lembaga Kemajuan Ikan Malaysia (LKIM) has paid Living Allowance for fishermen worth RM200 per month to a total of 11325 fishermen in Sabah. The 1958 recipients from 11325 are registered under E-Kasih. LKIM also will do long house fising projects, new long house building projects and relocation of all fishermen under Program Tabung Khas Nelayan starting 2012 until 2014.
"These were our promises, we want people to know that we fulfill our promises," said Chief Minister Datuk Musa Aman. "We give the homeless houses, we create jobs for the jobless and we create economic opportunities for the poor to generate higher income for themselves and for their families", he added.
Harap kadar kemiskinan di Sabah dapat dikurangkan.
ReplyDeletePasti boleh punya itu. Tambahan lagi Datuk Musa aman akan berusaha yang terbaik untuk semua ini.
DeleteKerajaan harus sentiasa menjadikan isu kemiskinan di Sabah sebagai agenda utama untuk membela nasib rakyat Sabah.
ReplyDeleteSabah berada di landasan yang betul dalam membasmi kemiskinan yang salama ini menjadi isu yang utama kepada sabah.
ReplyDeleteBanyak yang telah dilakukan oleh Sabah demi untuk memastikan semua rakyat dapat meninkmati kehidupan yang lebih selesa.
ReplyDeleteHopefully the Focus Group will help ensure the government's effort in poverty eradication is going successfully, the programs such as E-Kasih, PPRT, MESEJ, 1Azam and more are set to help reduce the burden of the hardcore poor and improve their livelihood.
ReplyDeleteDatuk Musa Aman has made Eradicating poverty an objective after he has took over as the Chief Minister of Sabah, hopefully he will continue to do his best to lead Sabah towards a developed and high income state by 2020.
ReplyDeletesetuju sangat dengan artikel ni.. sekarang ni pun ada la improvement sikit.. ada banyak program2 kerajaan sekarang ini yang bertujuan untuk membangunkan ekonomi rakyat..
ReplyDeleterakyat pun kenalah manfaatkan program dan kemudahan yang disediakan untuk meningkat taraf hidup mereka.
DeleteAn academician has urged the Economic Planning Unit to revise the guidelines defining poverty to better reflect current realities.
ReplyDeleteDatuk Dr Denison Jayasooria, principal research fellow at the Institute of Ethnic Studies of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, said a more realistic poverty line was needed to enable the government to formulate effective policies and programmes to address problems associated with poverty.
ReplyDeletePoverty should be redefined and different measurements should be used to capture the realities at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder," he told Bernama in an interview.
ReplyDeleteCurrently, the national poverty line is based on the minimum monthly household income of RM760 in peninsular Malaysia, and RM1,050 and RM910 in Sabah and Sarawak, respectively.
ReplyDeleteDenison said the Poverty Line Income (PLI) and income measurements should be altered towards a multi-dimensional approach in taking into account factors like human needs and human rights, and quality of life.
ReplyDeleteHe said greater focus should be given to address urban poverty, which was further compounded with many unresolved issues, such as inadequate public facilities at low-cost flats.
ReplyDelete"There is an urgent need to address urban poverty and low-income living neighbourhood through neighbourhood based on inter-agency, multi-disciplinary and multi-ethnic delivery teams," he said.
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ReplyDeleteDenison, who is secretary-general of the human rights group Proham, however stressed that Malaysia formulated good macro development plans and ensured growth with distribution as its priority.
Meanwhile, the head of the Centre for Social Entrepreneurship of Binary University, Prof Sulochana Nair, said that though abject poverty had been effectively reduced, the income inequality had significantly risen across different ethnic groups in the country and was therefore widening the inequality gap between the urban and rural communities.
ReplyDelete"The rising inequality in the context of inflation and crime is negatively impacting the bottom 40 per cent of the socio-economic ladder who are earning less than RM3,000 a month in urban areas.
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ReplyDelete"These are the urban poor residing in low-cost high-rise flats in urban centres.
"Therefore, Malaysian policy must now be on equalising opportunities rather than equalising outcomes," said the former head of the Centre for Poverty and Development Studies of University Malaya
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