For those who’re questioning how a lot it has value to develop the Pangkalan Knowledge 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 economic system minister Rafizi Ramli, the price consists of that for gear and ICT software program, checking and verification providers, publicity providers and strategic communications for the platform. The sum spent additionally covers the registration of customers, each on-line and offline, he stated in a written reply in parliament, made in response to a query by Salamiah Mohd Nor (PN-Temerloh) on eligible recipients of focused subsidies based mostly on the PADU database.
The database, which was formally rolled out on January 2, is meant to mix all out there knowledge of people and households collected from authorities departments and businesses, making it a key element in how the federal government retargets subsidies and help, utilising family internet disposable earnings metrics as an indicator.
In early communication about it when it was launched, the federal government stated that the information collected by PADU can be used to decide 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 task PADU truly performed in figuring out issues within the diesel rationalisation programme.
A lot of that is all the way down to having diesel homeowners register themselves for help beneath Budi Madani, which begs the query – if PADU has all the mandatory 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 information on all of the vehicles you personal, in addition to related knowledge that may decide in case you qualify or not for help.
The dearth of dynamic and full knowledge may 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 stated to have signed up on the finish of the registration interval (March 31). Whereas that quantity was almost 50% of the whole 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 out there dynamic knowledge the federal government has at its disposal to quantify issues. One can solely hope that the course of for RON 95 petrol might 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 includes analysing and streamlining the information of these registered on it. He stated that this section additionally consists of figuring out family measurement, expenditure, internet earnings and forming a “use case.”
Concerning the mechanism for focused subsidies, he stated the standards for the use case are nonetheless being decided. “The federal government will guarantee a good mechanism to determine beneficiary teams and minimise inclusion and exclusion errors,” he stated.
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