Pengarahnya Datin Paduka Mastura Muhamad berkata kemudahan itu disediakan sepanjang berlangsungnya pesta buku bagi kemudahan pengunjung selain menyelesaikan masalah pengangkutan.

Menteri Besar Selangor, Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari berkata, kebenaran itu akan memberi peluang kepada pelabur-pelabur luar untuk turut menyertai kerancakan aktiviti ekonomi di Malaysia.

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.