Rural development programmes should be relevant to current needs - DPM

BernamaPublished: Feb 1, 2023 12:07 AM

The government needs to examine the effectiveness of all the rural development programmes being implemented to ensure they are relevant and meet the needs of the target groups, Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said.

Zahid, who is also the minister of rural and regional development, said this was because the population ratio in rural areas had decreased from 70 percent in the 1960s to 30 percent today...

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