“Kita masih ada peruntukan untuk membiayai skim pinjaman ini, jadi pemohon yang tidak pernah menjalankan aktiviti perniagaan tetapi ingin belajar berniaga sendiri boleh mohon,” katanya.

“PKNS is targeting RM1bil this year, but due to the slow economy, we have only achieved RM600mil in sales thus far. Hopefully, the economy will improve next year and we will be able to launch the projects as planned,” - Md Kamarzan

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.