Minister for Local government, Senator Datuk Dr. Sim Kui Hian\u00a0<\/b>said \u00a0the Budget 2017 is a rakyat-centric budget whereby the Government is\u00a0<\/b>taking necessary measures and setting aside requisite budget for a\u00a0<\/b>series of subsidies in street lights, road maintenance, water and\u00a0<\/b>power supply as well as to lay out plans and programmes to increase the\u00a0<\/b>people\u2019s disposable income. We are especially glad with the\u00a0<\/b>Government\u2019s persistent efforts in helping our young generation\u00a0<\/b>through new incentives in PR1MA housing programmes as announced today.<\/b><\/p>\n
“Nevertheless, today’s Budget is a no surprise to Sarawak people. We see\u00a0<\/b>this Budget fails to provide sufficient Sarawak-centric budgets to\u00a0<\/b>boost socio-economic developments in Sarawak, since we are so much\u00a0<\/b>being left behind in development, comparing to the Peninsular. This\u00a0<\/b>Budget again shows that Sarawak has to \u201ccompete\u201d for the announced\u00a0<\/b>goodies with other 12 states (apart from schools and health which are\u00a0<\/b>in desperate conditions). That is the exact reason we SUPP reckons\u00a0<\/b>that Sarawak\u2019s constitutional position as one of three founding states\u00a0<\/b>to the federation of Malaysia need to be restored,” he said.<\/b><\/p>\n
Dr. Sim added that there are new motorbikes fly-overs announced today,\u00a0<\/b>but Sarawak is still waiting for new motor vehicle flyovers for\u00a0<\/b>Kuching since the last Budget.<\/b><\/p>\n
He was however disappointed that domestic Domestic flights and international\u00a0<\/b>flights for Sarawak, which are essential to its socio-economic development as\u00a0<\/b>well as tourism, but was nowhere to be seen in Budget 2017.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Minister for Local government, Senator Datuk Dr. Sim Kui Hian\u00a0said \u00a0the Budget 2017 is a rakyat-centric budget whereby the Government is\u00a0taking necessary measures and setting aside requisite budget for a\u00a0series of subsidies in street lights, road maintenance, water and\u00a0power supply as well as to lay out plans and programmes to increase the\u00a0people\u2019s disposable income. We are especially glad with the\u00a0Government\u2019s persistent efforts in helping our young generation\u00a0through new incentives in PR1MA housing programmes as announced today. “Nevertheless, today’s Budget is a no surprise to Sarawak people. We see\u00a0this Budget failsRead More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13116,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13115\/revisions\/13116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}