Fast and transparent manner

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Publish date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020, 10:19 AM

PETALING JAYA: A major challenge of the RM250bil economic stimulus package is to ensure all the assistance announced reach the intended recipients in a fast and transparent manner, says Senior Minister Datuk Seri Azmin Ali.

“That is our challenge. The Finance Ministry has prepared modules for every ministry on the stimulus package so that they know what is to be done, ” he said in an interview aired on TV1 yesterday.

He said his ministry, through the Unit for the Implementation and Coordination of National Agencies on the Economic Stimulus Package (Laksana), would ensure a quick and smooth implementation of the stimulus package.

The International Trade and Industry Minister said the government needed to discard bureaucracy as people who lost their jobs needed financial help quickly.

He said that at present, the government only had data on the B40 group and petty traders but not on the M40 group.

“The M40 is our challenge as all initiatives by the government hardly gave attention to this group. We have to step up our efforts to ensure those who apply from the M40 group are those who really qualify, ” he said.

B40 is the base group which earns less than RM4,000 a month while M40 is the middle class in the RM4,000-RM8,000 salary bracket.

Azmin said most Malaysians had bank accounts and funds would be credited to them after they are confirmed to be qualified.He also said that the stimulus package was not just in aid of the rakyat but also the private sector.

“If companies are not assisted, workers may lose their jobs. This will create bigger problems. When workers are retrenched and when the difficult period is over, the capacity to retrain workers would have worsened.

“The government has come in with a cash flow injection so that employers have no reason to retrench their workers.

“We prioritise the need to help the people. If the people are suffering, I cannot go down to the villages and tell Makcik Kiah that the government cannot help because the fiscal deficit is at 4%.

“They would not understand. So, we focus on the rakyat first and later we will address fiscal issues in the long run, ” he said.

When unveiling the stimulus package on Friday, Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin used the analogy of a pisang goreng seller he called Makcik Kiah to explain how women in the B40 group stood to benefit from the stimulus package.

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2020/03/29/fast-and-transparent-manner

Discussions

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Sslee

Why give cash to civil servants when they are not going to lost their job. Why brother to help M40 when the once at risk is SME going to bankrupt and lay off employees as they do not have income and need to pay the fixed cost.

2020-03-29 11:27

EngineeringProfit

Exactly

2020-03-29 11:32

chinaman

Civil servants who contribute most are frontline doctors, healthcare workers,nurses, cleaners, army, police, bomba, Rela in doing mass national disinfection. its form of gratitude, thank you for their sacrifice battling the invisible virus.

2020-03-29 11:33

Datuk Seri Rick Walker

Do you know large number of civil servants job is just shifting paper! And they are given pension for life! You have tons in private firms doing tons of job,paid the same salary but will be jobless in few years time because this firms will replace them with young and cheaper workforce!
SsLee is right! Come recession, depression or like current pandemic, civil servants can shake their legs! Full salary at end of the month, pension once retired! And their contribution is peanut! What a waste! I strongly propose that civil service abolish pension and replace with contractual basis!

2020-03-29 11:57

Datuk Seri Rick Walker

It was Najib who bloated our civil service with useless extra 1 million! No thoughts that future generations will be overburden with pension welfare for this bloated 4 to 5 million retirees! In the end, Malaysia will spend 60% of it's annual budget feeding useless civil servants!
Be firm! You don't give pension to non performers! You are cultivating lazy culture! Only get pension to deserving and talents teachers, core medical staff, and so forth! Be very selective! Pension for those who are useable in time of crisis! Example, during current pandemic, you can recall those retiree doctors and nurses and pay extra on top of their pension! It's worth it! Tell me, what do retired clerical civil servants do! When half of they working life spend playing around!

2020-03-29 12:15

Datuk Seri Rick Walker

Do you know that by 2030, Malaysia will have more old people compare to young ones! Yeah, those in their 20s already 30s in 10 years time! Those who are in their 30s already 40s! And yeah, by 2030, Malaysia will have explosion of retiree from civil service!

2020-03-29 12:17

Datuk Seri Rick Walker

Ks55! Not all new intake! Just fraction! Harapan fail to curb full pension!

2020-03-29 12:20

5354_

Why Azmin Ali never tell this to Tun M when he was in PH? He is no 1 traitor?

2020-03-29 12:54

alina

don't expect too much from azmin. i'm agreed a few of you. Extra gift for civil workers should give or priority for those selective parts in middle of crisis like present only. The gift should not give to other civil types. Front-liner civil like rela, police, army, healthcare; medical staffs, nurses & doctors, should be priority right now. In private and government hospital right now, even though normal staff also contribute to do scanning and monitoring the public movement that come for medical checkup.

2020-03-30 20:22

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