PUTRAJAYA: The Education Ministry bears a huge responsibility to ensure that every expenditure from the allocation announced in Budget 2023 has an optimal impact on national education development through seven main thrusts outlined to produce happy students and teachers, high performing schools and a prosperous nation.
The Ministry said the highest allocation received, at RM55.2bil, compared with RM52.6bil last year, will drive the ministry's continued commitment to further improve the quality of existing infrastructure in schools.
Among the allocations announced in Budget 2023 is RM2.3bil to build the best infrastructure and learning facilities in all schools, including RM920mil to upgrade buildings and infrastructure in 380 poor schools, especially in Sabah and Sarawak, through a special procurement method for urgency; RM900mil for work maintaining the facilities of all types of schools, including national primary schools , Chinese national-type primary schools and Tamil national-type primary schools .
MOE also received an allocation of RM777mil, compared with last year's RM625mil, to provide nutritious food under the Supplementary Meal Plan , which benefits 700,000 students.
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