RiDE diwujudkan selepas Kerajaan Negeri melihat keperluan melindungi pekerja sektor p-panggilan berikutan kebergantungan masyarakat terhadap sektor itu terutama selepas penularan wabak Covid-19.

Sebelum ini, media melaporkan kira-kira 500 pembeli projek perumahan Rumah Selangorku bagi golongan B40 di Morib buntu selepas rumah yang sepatutnya siap pada 2020 masih belum boleh diduduki.

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.