Keep in mind the PADU socio-economic database that was spearheaded by former economic system minister Datuk Seri Rafizi Ramli? It wasn’t in useless in any case, as information from the Pangkalan Information Utama will likely be used within the RON95 subsidy rationalisation programme’s mechanism.
In response to finance minister II Datuk Seri Amir Hamzah Azizan, the mechanism that’s being fine-tuned by the MoF will use information from PADU, which has 30.4 million particular person profiles. The profiles of Malaysians include info on demographics, locality, socioeconomic and occupation, revenue, schooling, car possession, ‘poverty standing’ (standing kemiskinan) and the kind of help one is receiving.
“Concerning the implementation of the focused subsidy, PADU’s information will likely be utilized by the MoF as a reference for RON95 subsidy recipients. That is the primary use of PADU in an in depth manner,” mentioned Amir Hamzah, who can also be the appearing economic system minister after Rafizi resigned in Might.
“For now, the federal government will give attention to using the newest information to enhance the effectiveness of service supply. For instance, affirmation and verification of the applicant’s info to make sure that the recipient is actually certified, decreasing error,” the senator advised Dewan Rakyat at the moment, reported by Bernama. He added that from the info in hand, the federal government also can determine the intervention programmes for goal teams.
Amir Hamzah additionally shed some gentle on PADU’s present standing. He mentioned that as of now, 204 businesses have shared and built-in their information straight with PADU, with information utilization restricted to authorities businesses. Up to now, there have been 9 authorized functions to make use of PADU’s information from varied businesses, he added.
In November 2024, Rafizi revealed that round 55% of households registered on PADU in the course of the first part, with most coming from decrease revenue teams.
“Beforehand, there was an assumption that the M40 group wouldn’t obtain subsidies. Now, with the federal government clarifying that solely the T15 and above are ineligible and the factors introduced, I feel extra teams will register. If the general public understands that verifying eligibility for RON 95 subsidies depends on information from PADU they usually don’t register, they danger being excluded,” the Pandan MP mentioned then.
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