NIBONG TEBAL, June 23 (Bernama) -- The Penang Regional Development Authority (PERDA) will continue its agenda of helping the people by organising various programmes to bring the agency closer to the rural communities.
PERDA chairman Datuk Dr Shaik Hussein Mydin expressed confidence that the move would ensure the effective delivery of information, thus allowing the public to understand and get to know PERDA better, including the programmes and assistance offered.
"We want to be more aggressive by going down to meet the community so that information about the inputs and programmes offered by PERDA can be delivered more effectively.
"We want the public to know that PERDA, apart from having housing projects, also has the PERDA High Skills Institute (PERDA-TECH) which offers technical and vocational education and training (TVET) programmes which are very much needed in the industry.
“This is in addition to loans, grants to help entrepreneurs, especially petty traders in the rural areas,” he said when met at the “Santuni Komuniti MADANI #PERDADiHati” programme at Taman Sungai Bakap Perdana here, today
Meanwhile, PERDA general manager Mohd Asri Baharum said such a programme brought the agency closer to the community and also enabled the agency to get input, feedback and ideas from the public.
“We will develop PERDA 2.0 policy at the end of the year, whereby, through this programme, we can gather input from the rural communities for use to improve the PERDA strategic plan.
According to him, among the suggestions received were for PERDA to relax the admission requirements to PERDA-TECH and to collaborate with big companies to secure employment opportunities for PERDA-TECH trainees.
At the event, PERDA also held a pre-launch of its Phase II and Phase III of the Taman Sungai Bakap Perdana Housing project, which involved the construction of 105 housing units, scheduled for completion in September next year on a three-hectare site.
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