27th March, 2012
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He said all the RM500 payment vouchers for the BR1M recipients have already been handed over to district offices for distribution.
Musa, who is also the Finance Minister said this when replying to a question from Kundasang Assemblyman, Dr Joachim Gunsalam at the State Assembly sitting here yesterday.
Dr Joachim had wanted to know the benefits of the programme.
“The Barisan Nasional government has always been implementing programmes that are beneficial to the people. Hence, the government is always ready to provide any type of assistance to ease the people’s burden.”
“This is important and even though the economic situation in the state and country as a whole, has improved, we realised that we cannot avoid the fact that the global economy will affect prices of goods in the country,” he said.
Hence, Musa said, the implementation of the RM500 BR1Mprogramme showed that the government was concerned and sincere in its efforts to help ease the financial burden of the low-income group.
“I believe this kind of programme has not been carried out by any other country,” he added.
He also said apart from benefiting the recipients, financial aid like the BR1M, would also generate local economic activities.
“In my opinion, the main objective of this BR1M programme has been achieved.
“Many among the recipients were grateful and thankful to the government, in particular, the Prime Minister for being concerned and sincere in helping the people,” he told the House.
Meanwhile, the 355,807 people in Sabah whose BR1M applications had been approved represented 9.51 per cent of the total recipients of 3.74 million families throughout the country.
However, those who were not successful could appeal and re-submit their application for the assistance. Most of the unsuccessful applicants have re-applied and the process of distributing the cash vouchers will continue until all have received it.
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister said the government realised that there were some people in the remote areas of Sabah who were eligible to receive the aid but were not able to register for it.
“In this case, the government will adopt a flexible approach to allow them to receive the aid so that they won’t be left out,” he said.
The government, he said, also realised that there were bound to be shortcomings, be it technical, data errors or wrong personal information provided and hence appropriate steps would be taken to rectify them.
“We we will conduct a postmortem on the distribution process of the BR1M. This one of the proactive steps taken by the government to improve the mechanism for channeling assistance,” he said.
Source: New Sabah Times (Online news)
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