KOTA KINABALU: The Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) will distribute an additional 48,000 units of computers in Sabah under the second phase of 1Malaysia computer programme currently being implemented.
Assistant Resource Development and Information Technology Minister Datuk Jainab Ahmad said this is in continuation to the programme’s first phase where a total of 10,000 units of computers have been distributed among eligible recipients in Sabah.
She said the additional computers will be distributed in stages among students from 223 schools across the state.
“A total of 172,000 units of computers has been allocated for Sabah,” she said when answering a written question from Datuk Arifin Mohd Arif (BN Membakut).
She added that the remaining 112,800 units will be given out in the third phase of the programme which will commence soon.
Meanwhile, Infrastructure Development Minister Tan Sri Joseph Pairin Kitingan informed the House that a project to build a water treatment plant in Kundasang was expected to commence next year should the funding be approved by the Finance Minister.
He said a proposal to provide a detailed plan for the construction of the facility, which has a capacity of producing 15 million litre of treated water daily, has been approved under the Ninth Malaysia Plan and the agency involved was in the process of acquiring the land for the project.
“The land acquisition exercise is expected to be completed by the end of this year and my Ministry has proposed the construction phase of the plant to be implemented under the Second Rolling Plan (2012-2013) of the Tenth Malaysian Plan (10MP),” he said.