MESEJ WAY TO FIGHT RURAL POVERTY




INSPECTING..... Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak accompanied by Chief Minister Datuk Seri Panglima Musa Aman as well as Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan inspecting a fresh water fish devise underneath Kg Nala MESEJ aquaculture programme.

By : OLIVER M AND FIZAH YUSOF

ACCORDING to estimate Sabah's misery rate forsaken neatly from 24.2 percent in 2004 to 19.7 percent in 2009 when a initial wash out of high impact anti povety programmes made itself felt in a rural areas. The state supervision continued these measures right by a nineth as well as tenth Malaysia Plan.

In a continuing effort to serve revoke a misery rate in a state, a state supervision allocated a total of RM202.12 million to lift out misery expulsion programmes in a 2013 budget.
Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Panglima Musa Aman is assured that a various misery expulsion programmes, complemented by similar Federal supervision programmes, would revoke a misery problems especially a hardcore misery in Sabah.

The MESEJ programme was proposed in 2003 by a state supervision as one of a ways to plunge into a complaint of rural poverty.

Under a programme, participants were encouraged to work upon plantation estates to consequence wages as good as a share of a estate's distinction in a pity scheme devised by a government. The supervision additionally provides housin! g facili ties for a participants as good as alternative amenities.

So far there have been right away 44 MESEJ programmes via Sabah, that include of twenty-nine Sejahtera Mini Oil Palm as well as Rubber Estate, 6 Aquaculture Sejahtera Mini Estate, 7 Micro Aquaculture Sejahtera Mini Estate as well as 2 Integrated Sejahtera Mini Estate involving some-more than 1,500 participants.

Out of a stream 44 MESEJ programmes, 5 MESEJ programmes have been set up in a East Coast of Sabah namely Nala in Lahad Datu, Log Buton in Semporna, Pulau Sebatik in Tawau as well as two in Kunak, MESEJ Pangi as well as MESEJ Sapang.

Encouraged by a success of a MESEJ programme a supervision has devise to open up three brand new estates in 2013 in Kota Belud, Beaufort as well as Kinabatangan as good as one during Membakut. The MESEJ programme for this year will concentration especially upon palm oil.

During a revisit to Kg Pangi MESEJ in Kunak, Minister of Rural Development Datuk Dr Ewon Ebin praised a MESEJ aquaculture programme in Kg Pangi as an additional e.g. of a efficacy of a government's programme as it has helped a aim group greatly.

He pronounced by a cultivation of seaweed, participants of a programme managed to consequence between RM3,000 to RM13,000 per month.

He pronounced on top of mending a income of a participants, a supervision has additionally constructed 100 houses in Kg Pangi MESEJ for a participants of a programme.

Ewon additionally revealedthat a building a whole of thirty houses for a Sapang MESEJ programme will be finished in February 2013. MESEJ Sapang has 240 acres of land artistic with oil palm.

With a introduction of a 4 brand new MESEJ programmes in 2013 a supervision hopes to increase a number of participants from 1,500 people to some-more than 2,000 pe! ople.

Besides a MESEJ programmes, alternative supervision misery expulsion programmes have been a PPRT Estate, Agropolitan, 1 AZAM, Housing Assistance Program (PBR), Urban Poverty Eradication Programme (PPKB) as well as Amanah Saham Bumiputera (ASB). (Insight Sabah)
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