Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email Taken from BERNAMA. The numbers looks positive and hopefully the targets can be achieved. Need to analyse further to see the effectiveness.
The Government Transformation Programme (GTP), introduced in April last year by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, has achieved significant results through the various initiatives of the National Key Results Areas (NKRAs).
The director of communications for the GTP at the Performance Management and Delivery Unit in the Prime Minister’s Department (Pemandu), Alex Iskandar Liew, said the overall crime index in January to August dropped 16.24 per cent over the same period last year.
Street crimes have also seen a significant decrease to 37 per cent in the same time period, he said in a statement today regarding the GTP’s performance update recently.
Liew said the positive results were driven by, among others, police omnipresence (2,026 per day), diligence at various crime hotspots, the mobilisation of 372,550 Rakan Cop members, 105,850 voluntary patrol scheme members in addition to the reassignment of 6,791 policemen to the frontline and 3,814 civilians to police desk jobs.
In education, an additional 54,569 children have benefited from 1,358 pre-school classes and all primary and secondary schools in the country have been ranked and have submitted their plans to enhance their performance under the School Improvement Programme (SIP).
As for rural basic infrastructure, 469km of roads have been completed, 1,664 houses built, 1,886 houses connected with electricity, and 6,576 houses connected with clean and treated water nationwide.
Liew said the government’s effort to reduce hardcore poverty had also shown tremendous results with a total of 23,679 or 47 per cent of 44,643 hardcore poor households having been removed from the category.
Urban public transport also registered positive results where the daily ridership of the light rail transit increased by an additional 2.4 million passenger or 8.4 per cent.
Liew said the government’s effort to fight corruption was also progressing well, with several initiatives already in place.
These include the Whistleblower Protection Act, the MyProcurement portal and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s (MACC) “name-and-shame” database published on its website.
To continue the national agenda of transforming Malaysia to achieve Vision 2020, the government would roll out the private sector-led Economic Transformation Programme (ETP) in the fourth quarter of this year, he said.
