PUSA: The financial agreement between the federal and state government ensures issues related to education and health can be resolved more quickly.
It allows for things to be done without waiting for allocations from the federal government alone like before.
Beting Maro assemblyman Razaili Gapor said, this is one of the priorities of the Sarawak government in line with the Post-Covid-19 Development Strategy Plan (PCDS) 2030 to become a high-income developed region by 2030.
“The desire to see that the issue of dilapidated schools and clinics is resolved immediately led to the Sarawak government’s proposal to ask the federal government to agree that Sarawak use its own allocation first.
“The federal government agreed to reimburse the cost to the Sarawak government,” he said.
He explained that, as stated in the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63), the Sarawak government hopes to be given autonomous powers over education and health.
Razaili described education and health as two important aspects related to the well-being of the people.
“To ensure that both can be provided in the best possible way, the Sarawak government is serious about seeing any related issues as a priority to be addressed,” he said.
At the state level Gawai Dayak Dinner at the Borneo Convention Center Kuching (BCCK) on Saturday, Premier Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Abang Johari Tun Openg stated that the Sarawak government is ready with an allocation of RM100 million for dilapidated schools and RM100 million for clinics.
