MILLIONS of Malaysians have already been helped by the Government's various poverty alleviation programmes. This is part of the overall economic and government transformation programmes which have and will continue to change our lives all our lives for the better.
Let's look at how transformed people's lives are in the rural areas. For example, under our rural infrastructure efforts over the last three years, it is estimated that 4.3 million rural people have benefited. We built 3,490km of rural roads (equivalent to a distance from Johor to Myanmar). Thousands of rural people now have access to electricity, water and affordable housing.