"Kedua-dua unit ini bertindak sebagai penyelaras program pembasmian kemiskinan oleh agensi pemberi bantuan di peringkat Persekutuan dan negeri melalui mesyuarat fokus grup kesejahteraan rakyat negeri Selangor dan di peringkat daerah," katanya.

The contribution was handed over by Amirudin to the Secretary of the West Asia Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Datuk Zahairi Baharim, at the Selangor State Secretariat Building.

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.