Internet access project for Kemas preschools to start at year-end: Mahdzir

SERDANG – The implementation of phase one of a project to increase internet access at Community Development Department (Kemas) preschools is expected to start at the end of this year, said Rural Development Minister Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid.

In May, Mahdzir said the Rural Development Ministry would collaborate with the Communications and Multimedia Ministry to ensure that the digitalisation effort at such preschools throughout the country can be implemented more effectively.

He said he had recently met with Communications and Multimedia Minister Tan Sri Annuar Musa in connection with the project at 11,000 preschools, adding that the Communications and Multimedia Ministry has given its support to the Rural Development Ministry’s intention to proceed with the project.

"The need to provide internet facilities, especially for preschools located in the interior, is an effort to ensure that the Tabika Kemas Early Childhood Education Digital Transformation Plan runs smoothly to further boost early childhood talent development,” he told reporters after attending the signing ceremony of a memorandum of understanding between Universiti Putra Malaysia and the Film Directors’ Association of Malaysia here today.

Mahdzir said the Rural Development Ministry will hold an engagement session with the Finance  Ministry next month to discuss the allocations and implementation method of the project. – Bernama, August 25, 2022