GTP, ETP have resulted in higher income and investments, more jobs, says PM Najib

PETALING JAYA: The Government Transformation Programme (GTP) and Economic Transformation Programme (ETP) have seen the income per capita of Malaysians increased from US$7,059 to US$10,426 in the past six years.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak (pic) said on Tuesday that the increase recorded between 2009 to 2014 was hand-in-hand with the increase of sustained high investments in the country.

"Investments in the country increased from RM142bil in 2009 to RM228bil last year," he said in his annual National Transformation Programme report Tuesday night.

Najib (right) and Muhyiddin Yassin arriving in RTM.

 

Najib said these were only two out of five main indicators of the GTP and ETP implementation that began in 2010.

He said the third sign was around 1,500,000 new jobs created in the National Key Economic Areas (NKEA) since 2010.

 "Over five million people in rural areas with access to water and electricity, and almost 170,000 people brought out of poverty, are the final two indicators of the GTP and ETP implementations," he said.

Najib stressed that the numbers and figures stated in the National Transformation Programme's annual report were not plucked from thin air but verified by various parties including auditors, both locally and internationally.

"What we are sharing tonight in this report are true achievements, supported by facts and verified data,” he said.

 

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