LIPIS – The Rubber Industry Smallholders Development Authority (Risda) has allocated RM2.5 million to implement the People’s Tuition Programme for the benefit of 3,000 smallholders’ children sitting for the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examination.
Deputy Rural Development Minister Datuk Seri Abdul Rahman Mohamad said the free tuition classes will focus on key subjects such as Bahasa Malaysia, English, Science, Mathematics, and History.
He said the programme, which aims to help improve the academic performance of the new generation of smallholders, involved the setting up of 200 tuition centres nationwide.
“Since it was implemented a few years ago, we found that the performance of the students involved had improved and hopefully they can change the fate of their families,” he told a press conference after presenting school aid and officiating the Risda People’s Tuition Programme for Pahang at Dewan Jubilee Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah here today.
Also present were state Rural Development and Orang Asli Affairs Committee chairman Datuk Abd Aziz Mat Kiram, Pahang Risda director Esa Rahimin, and state Majlis Amanah Rakyat director Soffian Mustaffa.
Rahman, who is also the Lipis MP, said a total of 25 People’s Tuition centres were established in Pahang to help 375 students with an allocation of RM312,500.
On schooling assistance, Rahman said the contribution through Yayasan Risda amounting to RM73,800 was given to 369 primary and secondary school students in the Lipis district with each receiving RM200. – Bernama, March 25, 2022
