UP TO RM12BIL SET ASIDE TO DEVELOP RURAL AREAS

Between RM8bil and RM12bil have been allocated to develop rural infrastructure which includes installing water and power supply.

The allocation would include the building of 1,500km of roads and 50,000 houses for the hardcore poor until 2012.

Of the amount, RM4bil was for building and upgrading of roads in the peninsula, Sabah and Sarawak.

“Some 13,000 houses for the hardcore poor have been built so far.

“We are targeting 17,000 houses by the end of the year,”

Rural and Regional Develop-ment Minister Datuk Shafie Apdal