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Kedah receives RM2.3 bil for first rolling plan in 10MP

 

ALOR SETAR (July 15, 2012): About RM1 billion has been spent by the Kedah State Government from the RM2.3 billion federal government allocation for the state's first rolling plan in the 10th Malaysia Plan involving 347 projects.

Kedah Federal Action Council chairman, Datuk Mohd Johari Baharum said currently, 68.8 per cent of the projects had been completed.

While for the state's second rolling plan, a total of RM366.03 million had been spent from the RM1.83 billion given, with 27.4 per cent from the 230 projects planned had been completed, said Mohd Johari, who is also the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry.

"This year, the federal government has approved a total of RM1.3 billion allocation for the state government and from it more than RM300 million was allocated for school development," he said when met after handing over indents worth RM3.94 million to 53 schools throughout the state for upgrading works under the Rural Transformation Programme, here, today.

In addition, he said, for the period of five years from 2008 to 2012, the federal government had allocated a total of RM142.79 million for the state's public infrastructure maintenance projects and basic infrastructure, RM325.66 million for special projects involving mosques and surau as well as RM181.56 million for the 1Malaysia People's Aid (BR1M)