Govt Accepts Sarawak Rm1 Billion Offdr To Fix Schools
Thirdly the repair works of poor schools in Sarawak must be offered via an open tender to ensure transparency and value for money based on the current financial guidelines of the federal government Pua said adding that the federal government is also prepared to consider the Sarawak state governments selection of poor schools to be repaired.
Govt accepts sarawak rm1 billion offdr to fix schools. The state government had also suggested two years ago for it to use its outstanding loans to fix dilapidated schools or. Secondly the budget that has been allocated to fix dilapidated schools in Sarawak is RM1885 billion consisting of RM517 million from the federal government. No government will agree to that.
The ministry made it clear that the RM1 billion fund is actually owned by the federal government to be used to repair schools in Sarawak and subjected to four prescribed legal mechanisms. Thirdly the repair works of the dilapidated schools in Sarawak should be offered by open tender to ensure transparency and fair value based on the current Federal government. However the loan offer was rejected by the new Pakatan Harapan federal government.
The statement explained that this would be subjected to four prescribed legal mechanisms. Chong said the Sarawak government must realise that this is a new government and there must be transparency when it comes to spending. In general the Federal government has agreed to partially accept the loan repayment from the Sarawak government amounting to RM1 billion which will be allocated for repairs of dilapidated schools in the state it said.
In a Facebook post. He said instead of accepting the offer the PH federal government then asked the state government to settle RM1 billion of its total loans with the PH federal government before any allocation for fixing run-down schools could be made. In April Putrajaya had turned down the Sarawak governments offer of a RM1 billion loan meant for repairing dilapidated schools in the state.
State Education Science and Technological Research Minister Michael Manyin said this followed Putrajayas decision to turn down the Sarawak governments offer of a RM1 billion loan to repair dilapidated schools in. The Sarawak government has. If the RM1 billion is repaid then the Sarawak government will still owe the federal.
Due to its continuous U-turns. He said the Education Ministry made counter-proposals following the rejection by Putrajaya of the state governments offer to repay RM1 billion of its outstanding loan to the federal government as contra payment for the repair of dilapidated schools in Sarawak. In general the federal government has agreed to partially accept the loan repayment from the Sarawak government amounting to RM1 billion which will be allocated for repairs of dilapidated schools.
The federal government has agreed in principle to partially accept the RM1 billion loan repayment from the Sarawak government which will be allocated for repairs of dilapidated schools. Manyin said the state government is agreeable to Maszlees counter-proposals. A Sarawak minister said future dealings with the Pakatan Harapan government will likely be difficult.
Pending assemblywoman Violet Yong urges the Sarawak government to immediately pay up the RM350 million loan so as to enable the federal government to re-channel the sum back as allocation for the repair of dilapidated schools. KUCHING July 24. The Sarawak government says Education Minister Maszlee Malik had agreed in February the RM1 billion loan would be used to upgrade dilapidated schools in the state.
First the Sarawak government must repay RM1 billion from its total debt to the Federal Government Consolidated Fund in line with the law and the Federal Constitution. The Federal Cabinet has approved the repayment of a RM1 billion debt to the Federal Government from the Sarawak Government to fix dilapidated schools in Sarawak. At the same time the Sarawak government still owes the federal government a total of RM2375 billion.
Ten days ago on July 6 the federal government in a Finance Ministry MoF statement agreed in principle to partially accept the RM1 billion loan repayment from the Sarawak government which would be allocated for repairs of dilapidated schools in the state. Finance ministry has imposed four conditions for RM1 billion fund to repair schools in a bad condition in Sarawak. He said the offer was made after the allocation of RM1 billion approved by the previous BN government was withdrawn by the PH government.