KUCHING, Sept 20 (Bernama) -- The Communications and Multimedia Ministry (K-KOMM) aims to distribute 80 per cent of devices under the PerantiSiswa Keluarga Malaysia programme by the end of November.
Its Minister, Tan Sri Annuar Musa said that, as of yesterday, the ministry had received 350,000 applications under phases one and two, and the handover schedule for phase one was being actively arranged.
“To ensure all recipients get their devices fast, we will process the phase one and phase two applications simultaneously. We will also do an ongoing rollout.
“We will hand the devices over to applicants who fulfill all the conditions and are eligible,” he told a media conference after the PerantiSiswa handing-over ceremony here today.
At the event, a total of 411 students from Institut Pendidikan Guru (IPG) Kampus Batu Lintang and IPG Kampus Tun Abdul Razak received devices at the Sarawak state-level distribution session, which began today.
As of today, a total of 7,400 students in Sarawak have had their applications approved.
Previously, K-KOMM Infrastructure and Application Division principal assistant secretary Hariaty Mohd Idrus was reported to have said that a total of 105,665 PerantiSiswa applications had been approved as of Sept 14.
Hariaty said the first phase of the PerantiSiswa initiative was opened from April to May and the second phase from Aug 29-Sept 30, with a total of 350,000 PerantiSiswa tablets to be distributed.
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