PUTRAJAYA, Oct 17 — All government machinery needs to explain to the people the essence of Budget 2024, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
He said the people should be made to understand the reason for the focus on health and education given by the government in the 2024 Budget.
“The explanation is important, it has to be clarified to the people,” said the prime minister at the Finance Ministry’s monthly assembly here today.
Anwar, who is also Finance Minister tabled the Malaysia MADANI Budget 2024, themed ‘Economic Reform, Empowering the People’, amounting to RM393.8 billion, the highest in the history of the country’s budget.
The Education Ministry received the highest allocation amounting to RM58.7 billion, while the Health Ministry was allocated RM41.2 billion.
According to the prime minister, Budget 2024 is a national budget implemented to give confidence to investors and provide maximum comfort to the people.
