KUANTAN: The Pahang Foundation, or Yayasan Pahang, spent RM69.3 million for programmes and incentives to help 154,960 students in the education sector this year.
Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Adnan Yaakob said the expenditure this year rose 23% compared with RM56.4 million for 97,604 students last year.
“A total RM19.8 million was for loans, RM31.7 million for scholarships and RM17.8 million for programmes,” he told Datuk Pang Tsu Ming (BN-Semambu) at the State Assembly sitting here, yesterday.
He said numerous strategies were drawn up to boost the achievements of students such as the Answer for Success Programme, All Subjects ‘A’ Intervention Project and Puncak Jaya Programme.
Joyful faces: A file picture of Adnan posing with students who scored well in the SPM exam from several schools in Temerloh. The students received money from Yayasan Pahang for their achievements. He said the programmes were effective and had increased the quantity and quality of education to create a community with knowledge and higher skills.
“Yayasan Pahang also gives aid to students in Pahang who secured places in institutions of higher learning in the form of grants of RM500 each,” he said.
He said the grant, which was launched in 2000, had benefitted 98,858 students with a total expenditure of RM49.4 million to date.
In another matter, Pahang Health and Environment and Local Government Committee chairman Datuk Hoh Khai Mun said two more 1Malaysia clinics would be built at Taman Anggerik in Bentong, and Mentakab.
He said this was in addition to the two operating in Kempadang Makmur and Padang Jaya, both in Kuantan, and one in Temerloh.
He said 77,384 people had gone to the clinics for treatment from January to September last year, or an average of between 50 to 60 people a day.
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