PORT DICKSON: The Government has allocated RM150mil to the Permata Negara early childhood care and education programme this year to upgrade the quality of 478 centres.
The Prime Minister’s wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor said the programme had been expanded to cover 18,000 children nationwide and was supported by 1,200 teachers implementing the Permata curriculum.
“However, this is only 0.5% of the 3.4 million children under four years old. We hope the Government will continue to give an allocation for 2010 so that we can expand the Permata programme,” she said when visiting the Bagan Pinang Permata Negara centre in Taman Desa Pinang, near here, yesterday.
Rosmah is policy chairman of the Permata Negara programme.
Those present included Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Jalil, Deputy Rural and Regional Development Minister Datuk Hasan Malek and Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan and wife Raja Datin Seri Salbiah Tengku Nujumuddin.
Rosmah added that the Port Dickson District Council had given three terrace houses in Taman Desa Pinang to be used as Bagan Pinang Permata Negara centres.
“Some RM400,000 will be spent on upgrading them. We hope to operate by early November after the upgrading by the Public Works Department is completed.
“The Negri Sembilan State Secretary has said that upgrading works will be completed in three weeks,” she said.
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