Government Transformation Programme (GTP)

Government Transformation Plan (GTP) Objective:

•Transforming the government into a more effective and accountable entity

•Catapulting Malaysia into an advanced, united, safe and just society with a high quality of life for all.

•The PM has earlier announced the 6 NKRAs and NKPIs

NKRA indicated in numbers while NKPI is in bullets

1.Widening access to quality education

•Ensuring people are able to read, write and count when they enter year 4, 2012

•About 1350 new pre-school opened with an estimated 27000 new student by 2010

2.Combating corruption

•Ministers no longer to sign “support letter" Disclosure of planned and awarded contracts at Ministries’ web portals

3.Reducing crime

•Reducing street crime by 20% by 2010

•Additional 1000 violent crime offenders to be brought to trial by Dec 2010

4.Upgrading low income households

•To reduce the incidence of poverty from 3.8% to 2.8% by 2010

•50% increase in house ownership/rental among rakyat with monthly household income below RM 2500 by 2012

5.Upgrading rural basic infrastructure

•Over 7000km of new and upgrade roads out of which 510km will be done by 2010

•360,000 houses to be connected to clear or treated water, 78760 houses by 2010

•50,000 new or restored houses to the poor and hardcore poor, 16,626 houses by 2010

6.Upgrading urban public transport (medium term)

•Increasing the number of public transport users from the current 16% to 25% by end 2012

•Adding 35 sets of four car trains to operate on the Kelana Jaya LRT track by end 2012

The government has drawn a very ambitious plan. While skeptics are not overall convinced of the grand plan, the man behind PEMANDU, Dato Seri Idris Jala, a turnaround manager at Shell Malaysia and move recently Malaysian Airlines, has a reputation for delivery, hence there is a chance for breakthrough. Yet again this is a chance for PM, YAB Dato Seri Najib to deliver his promises made at 100 days of his office. The GTP is a pre-cursor to GE 13 and if the Government could show some success it has the rakyat’s support. Let’s give PEMANDU and the Government a chance to prove itself.