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ETP ANNUAL REPORT 2011
“ The ETP is people focussed. Our single-minded
pursuit of investment and competitiveness is to
enable everyone to enjoy the wealth of the nation.
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Our priority is the rakyat
The ETP is people focussed. Our single-minded pursuit of
investment and competitiveness is to enable everyone to
enjoy the wealth of the nation. While it will take time before
the benefits are felt across the country as the ETP is a 10year
programme, we are delighted that many individuals
and their families are already seeing significant differences
in their lives.
We have transformed 519 mom-and-pop shops under the
TUKAR programme or modernising small retail sundry
shops (Wholesale and Retail NKEA). TUKAR gives shop
owners a fresh start. For entrepreneurs such as Shaari Abu
Hassan (Penang) Rahmat Sulaiman (Sibu), Michael Lim
(Sabah) and Mohd Shawal Omar (Johor), their sales have
risen sharply since the makeover. Between the four of them,
sales have increased between 30 per cent and 75 per cent.
In the Agriculture NKEA, farmers are enjoying better
income with the introduction of fragrant rice cultivation in
non-irrigated areas. For Encik Saidin Hashim in Sik, Gurun,
one of the contract farmers, his reason for switching was
simple, the premium that fragrant rice can command, some
RM1,400 per tonne of paddy versus RM950 per tonne,
proved quite an inducement. To date, 37 farmers in various
locations across the peninsula are participating in this
initiative.
In the Education NKEA, we are up-skilling existing preschool
teachers and providing pre-service training for
new teachers. Our aim is to raise the quality and level
of professionalism in early childhood education (ECCE)
as Malaysia moves towards a minimum diploma level
qualification for all ECCE teachers. To date, close to 6,000
teachers have been trained. Haryani Kamarudin was one of
the preschool teachers who participated in the three-week
ECCE teacher-training programme in November 2010.
She has been awarded a scholarship by SEGi to pursue a
Diploma in Early Childhood Education.
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2012: Renewing the discipline of action
On all counts, the ETP has got off the block quickly and
gained traction. However, this is a marathon, not a sprint.
We have nine more years to go and stakeholders from both
the public and private sector must remain fully focused to
realise the goals.
Transformation is not about marginal improvements or
for the faint-heart, more so when it is about remodelling
the national economy. It requires conviction and courage
to accept ambitious targets and work relentlessly towards
them.
The gauntlet has been thrown down. Our true north is
towards becoming a high-income nation. We believe that
a combination of the 12 NKEAs and six SRIs will allow us
to achieve RM1.4 trillion in investments, RM1.7 trillion in
GNI and to create 3.3 million new jobs. Detailed KPIs have
also been set for each NKEA and each EPP. The governance
structure that enables the Government to facilitate private
sector participation is in place.
Having a precise and detailed ETP roadmap is crucial. It has
concrete projects, targets, action items, project owners and
timelines clearly laid out. What it requires is the discipline
of action to make it happen. No amount of planning is any
good if no action is taken and repeated action is needed to
tip things over for targets to be achieved.
2012 will not be a year for us to introduce new programmes.
It will be one where we must follow through on our existing
programme and execute, execute, execute. Only then
can we become a high-income nation in an inclusive and
sustainable manner by 2020. Only then can we be rich, all
of us, for a long, long time.