Kadar penembusan pembayaran digital sektor awam di Selangor dan Pulau Pinang mencatatkan pencapaian memberangsangkan apabila mencecah 90 peratus setakat ini, menurut Payments Network Malaysia Sdn Bhd (PayNet).

Inisiatif ini lanjutan daripada usaha 'Memperkasakan Pembelajaran Dalam Talian' yang diperkenalkan pada 2020 bagi membantu anak-anak golongan berpendapatan B40 meneruskan pembelajaran mereka dalam situasi pandemik Covid-19.

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.