Perlaksanaan program Elaun Sara Hidup Nelayan amat bersesuaian dan
bertepatan serta selari dengan usaha kerajaan negeri untuk mengatasi
atau mencapai sifar kemiskinan di negeri ini pada masa akan datang.
Seperti
yang kita sedia maklum negeri Sabah merupakan antara negeri yang
mempunyai bilangan penduduk miskin yang agak tinggi dan nelayan
merupakan antara golongan yang seringkali dikaitkan dengan gejala
kemiskinan, kata Menteri Belia dan Sukan Negeri Datuk Peter Pang En Yin
ketika merasmikan majlis penyerahan Elaun Sara Hidup Nelayan kawasan
Sandakan di dewan masyarakat kelmarin.
Justeru itu, pelaksanaan
program ini juga amat amat bersesuaian dan bertepatan serta selari
dengan usaha kerajaan negeri untuk mengatasi atau mencapai sifar
kemiskinan di negeri Sabah pada masa akan datang, katanya.
Program
Elaun Sara Hidup Nelayan ini sebenarnya merupakan antara usaha dan
inisiatif pihak kerajaan bertujuan untuk membantu masyarakat nelayan di
Kawasan Sandakan khasnya dan di negeri Sabah amnya. Difahamkan seramai
734 orang nelayan serta penerima yang layak dari kawasan Sandakan yang
akan menerima Elaun Sara hidup nelayan iaitu sebanyak RM200 seorang,
melibatkan sejumlah peruntukan RM146,700, tambah beliau.
Masyarakat
nelayan juga mestilah menjadikan pemberian elaun ini sebagai satu
pendorong untuk terus berusaha gigih, demi menyara hidup keluarga,
meningkatkan pendaratan ikan dan sekaligus membantu memajukan industri
perikanan serta menjamin bekalan makanan negara sentiasa mencukupi di
negeri Sabah khasnya dan di Malaysia amnya, kata Pang.
Tambah
beliau, para nelayan harus mengucapkan jutaan terima kasih kepada
Kerajaan Barisan Nasional kerana selain bayaran Elaun Sara hidup, mereka
juga menerima bantuan subsidi minyak petrol dan diesel yang diberi
untuk membantu meringankan kos operasi nelayan ke laut. Di samping itu
apabila balik daripada laut mereka juga dibayar wang insentif tangkapan
iaitu 0.10 sen bagi setiap sekilo ikan yang ditangkap.
Pang
berharap agar semua bantuan yang diberi ini dianggap sebagai tambahan
pendapatan kepada masyarakat nelayan, dengan itu wajarlah jika menyimpan
atau menabung bantuan ini dan digunakan pada masa yang benar-benar
diperlukan.
Sumber: New Sabah Times
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ReplyDeleteThe government has never neglected the fishing community in Sabah and is committed to develop the state's fishing industry.
ReplyDeleteChief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman said various incentives were made in the national and state budgets to uplift the living standard and well-being of the fishing community.
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ReplyDeleteHe said this included bringing in modern technology from the west to develop the state's fishing industry for the benefit of local fishermen.
ReplyDeleteAs such, the people should appreciate efforts made by the government to transform the fishing industry, he said when opening the Fishermen's Festival at Pantai Mempakul, Menumbok here Saturday.
Musa advised the fishing community there to not be influenced by the claim made the opposition parties that they were left out in the country's mainstream development.
ReplyDeleteFishermen in Tuaran will live in more comfortable houses and enjoy better facilities.
ReplyDeleteMalaysian Fishery Development Board (LKIM) Sabah branch director Jamaludin Othman said that 118 of fishermen’s houses would be repaired or improved at a cost of RM1.4 million and RM1.6 million would be spent to replace the walkways at three coastal villages in the district whose occupants are fishermen.
ReplyDelete“More villages will enjoy this facility in the future. A fishery complex will also be built at the coastal village of Gayang to serve the surrounding villages.
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ReplyDelete“With the completion of the complex which will include a jetty, fishermen in Tuaran will have a centralised facility to land their catches and keep them fresh while waiting to be sold,” he said.
ReplyDeleteJamaludin disclosed this at the ceremony where Local Government and Housing Minister Datuk Hj Hajiji Hj Noor handed monthly aid to registered and qualified fishermen in Tuaran on Thursday.
The money came from LKIM, an agency under the Federal Ministry of Agricultue.
ReplyDeleteLKIM has been giving out the monthly aid to fishermen nationwide since 2011. This means that if a fisherman did not spend the money, he would have saved almost RM5,000 by the end of this year.
ReplyDeleteIn addition to the monthly aid to active fishermen, they are also covered under a special insurance scheme to protect them against accidents, injuries, permanent disabilities and deaths.
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ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, Hajiji who is Sulaman assemblyman, said the LKIM aid is only part of the Barisan Nasional government’s efforts to assist the fishing community in Tuaran district in general and the Sulaman constituency in particular.
He cited the hundreds of millions of ringgit spent to rehabilitate the fishing community at Mengkabong and Panembawan where the villagers now have free new houses which are better organised with proper sanitation.
ReplyDeleteThis, he pointed out, is in addition to the BR1M money received by the villagers earlier this year while another round of BR1M will be given out early in 2013.
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