Kuala Lumpur: The finance ministry today announced that the government has agreed to directly channel special assistance amounting to RM260 million to all state governments.
Its minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz said the aid would be distributed equally, with RM20 million to each state, for the immediate implementation of small projects to revive the local economy at the grassroots level.
“These small projects that will be dedicated to class G1 to G4 contractors include repair of public infrastructure and facilities, road repairs, social amenity programmes, repair of public housing as well as maintenance of business premises to ensure small traders and hawkers have a conducive environment to do business in local authority areas,” he said in a statement.
Tengku Zafrul said the government had increased the allocation for small-scale projects in 2021 through the Strategic Programme to Empower the People and the Economy (Pemerkasa) to further boost the activities of small-scale projects at the state and grassroots levels.
He said the distribution of special assistance under Pemerkasa was in line with the announcement of the package by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin on March 17.
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