“Saya akan menilai balik, kalau ada keperluan naik, kita naikkan. Namun, kalau ia membebankan mungkin kerajaan negeri akan ‘counter’ subsidi dengan simpanan yang kita ada,” katanya ketika ditemui pemberita selepas merasmikan kilang baharu UMW Grant di Pulau Indah, hari ini.

“We also want to focus on socio-economic development, including infrastructure and village road facilities like the water supply, the electricity supply, and telecommunications facilities,” - State EXCO for Orang Asli and minority affairs, V. Papparaidu.

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.