In the event you’re questioning how a lot it has value to develop the Pangkalan Information Utama (PADU) socio-economic database, right here’s the reply. From 2023 until now, the federal government has spent RM85.27 million to get the much-vaunted built-in nationwide socio-economic database in place, The Star reviews.
In line with financial system minister Rafizi Ramli, the associated fee consists of that for gear and ICT software program, checking and verification companies, publicity companies and strategic communications for the platform. The sum spent additionally covers the registration of customers, each on-line and offline, he mentioned in a written reply in parliament, made in response to a query by Salamiah Mohd Nor (PN-Temerloh) on eligible recipients of focused subsidies primarily based on the PADU database.
The database, which was formally rolled out on January 2, is meant to mix all obtainable knowledge of people and households collected from authorities departments and businesses, making it a key part in how the federal government retargets subsidies and help, utilising family internet disposable revenue metrics as an indicator.
In early communication about it when it was launched, the federal government mentioned that the information collected by PADU could be used to find out eligibility for its focused gasoline subsidy, however the subsequent emergence of the Program Bantuan Subsidi Madani following the transfer to implement focused gasoline subsidies beginning with diesel raised questions on how massive a job PADU truly performed in figuring out issues within the diesel rationalisation programme.
A lot of that is right down to having diesel homeowners register themselves for help below Budi Madani, which begs the query – if PADU has all the required knowledge, why can’t it’s used to find out who’s eligible and who isn’t, and why the necessity to register but once more on Budi? In spite of everything, it has been established that the database has data on all of the automobiles you personal, in addition to related knowledge that may decide for those who qualify or not for help.
The dearth of dynamic and full knowledge might have one thing to do with that, with Rafizi revealing that PADU now has knowledge on 10,544,016 people.
That is marginally decrease than the round 10.85 million that was mentioned to have signed up on the finish of the registration interval (March 31). Whereas that quantity was practically 50% of the entire variety of 21.96 million Malaysians aged 18 and above (out of 30.08 million people positioned within the database), that’s additionally half the obtainable dynamic knowledge the federal government has at its disposal to quantify issues. One can solely hope that the method for RON 95 petrol can be smoother and extra clear when it comes.
Regardless of the case could also be, PADU chugs on, with Rafizi stating that the database has entered the second section, which entails analysing and streamlining the information of these registered on it. He mentioned that this section additionally consists of figuring out family measurement, expenditure, internet revenue and forming a “use case.”
Concerning the mechanism for focused subsidies, he mentioned the factors for the use case are nonetheless being decided. “The federal government will guarantee a good mechanism to establish beneficiary teams and minimise inclusion and exclusion errors,” he mentioned.
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