History and Development

By: Jasmeen Kaur D/O Karpal Singh

2013-121807

Topic: Ministry of Rural and Regional Development

The Ministry of National and Rural and Regional Development or ‘Kementerian Pembangunan Negara dan Luar Bandar' (KPNLB) was established in 17 November 1959. KPNLB established a special community to review the role of FELDA.Later on, the RED BOOK was launched to plan and coordinate rural development. On December 1976, KPNLB was dissolved also the agencies were transferred. 18 July 1981, YAB Dato’ Seri Dr Mahathir announce reestablishment of KPNLB. Therefore, on October 1990 rural development such as RIDA which is known as MARA now, MARDI AND FELCRA came up for the rural areas.

 GTP which stands for  Government Transformation Program  was introduced by Dato’ Seri Najib in 2010 was to develop rural areas in a better way.
One of it  was to improve  and ensure clean water for the citizens in rural areas by finding least cost and fast ways to deliver water supplies.one of the big achievement is GTP is looking forward to create a higher demand for public transport to enable the citizens in the rural areas to link from one place to another.

Eforts done by the government also includes increasing rural folks earning to 80% by 2020 and also to create a Quality Village (Q village) by 2016.not to forget creating a skilled and knowledgeable society

On the other hand is to eradicate hardcore poverty, and reduce overall poverty rate to 2.8% by increasing  income and job opportunities in rural areas. Besides that,iIncrease coverage of electricity supply for rural areas in Sabah to 81%, and in Sarawak to 90%, by year 2012.this kind of improvement that government has imply should be carried on and be supported for a better wellbeing for the country.

http://www.google.com.my/search?q=minister+of+rural+and+regional+development+malaysia&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=-IFmUr7PDcqErgektoCwDQ&ved=0CAcQ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Rural_and_Regional_Development_(Malaysia)