Izham berkata kerajaan negeri turut menanggung kos logistik dan sewaan di ekspo itu bagi kesemua 11 usahawan berkenaan yang dianggarkan berjumlah RM200,000.

Ketua pegawai eksekutifnya berkata anugerah pengurusan komuniti itu merupakan penghormatan terhadap usaha berterusan agensi itu membekalkan bekalan air bersih di Selangor, Kuala Lumpur dan Putrajaya.

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.