Govt training for 2.4m below-average earners
By June Ramlee
june@nst.com.my
This is so that they can receive training from the government to help them improve their livelihoods, said Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop.
With the information on their situation, it would be easier for the government to help them with the proper programmes, he said, adding that this group of people were scattered all over the country and comprised farmers, fishermen and government servants in low clerical jobs.
"This (training) is done in line with the government's aspiration of becoming a high level income nation. To do that, we have to look at this group of people and help them improve their livelihoods," he said after launching the Fifth National Census here yesterday.
The census will cost the government RM200 million and will be held throughout the country until August 22. It will be carried out by 29,000 Statistics Board staff members, who will be going to 7.5 million houses to interview close to 28.3 million Malaysians.
Preliminary findings of the census will be publicised in November.
Nor Mohamed also said the government was in the process of setting up a talent corporation to bring back 700,000 high-income earning Malaysians living abroad.
"We are trying to bring a very popular Malaysian surgeon from Sydney back here and more will be done to get other Malaysians working abroad to come home. If they don't want to come back, then we will look at making them our networking partners for businesses abroad."
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