“Perkara ini penting untuk memastikan keselamatan serta kebajikan pelajar dan guru terus terjamin. Skop pemutihan ini hanya melibatkan pusat yang dibina dan beroperasi sehingga 31 Disember lalu sahaja,” katanya menerusi kenyataan.

One such initiative, she said, is an educators’ workshop on managing the learning behaviours of students with special education needs (MBPK).

Ng berkata, SIBS juga menampilkan speaker utama termasuk Menteri Besar Selangor, Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari, Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang, Chow Kon Yeow, Menteri Kementerian Pelaburan, Perdagangan dan Industri (MITI), Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz.

Mahmud said PKNS has many project sites under development, and Akademi PKNS sees this as a good opportunity to conduct education-based businesses in these development areas, including in Cyberjaya, Kota Puteri and Antara Gapi.

Therefore, he said, the government still bears up to RM10 billion for diesel subsidies despite saving RM4 billion a year as a result of the retargeting exercise.