‘Tablet scheme for 60% of B40 students approved’


KOTA KINABALU: Sixty per cent of the nearly 100,000 applications received for the first phase of the PerantiSiswa Keluarga Malaysia (Malaysian Family Student Device) programme were approved through initial screening, and the devices will be distributed this month, said Communications and Multimedia Minister Tan Sri Annuar Musa (pic).

He said the ministry was trying to complete the rollout of the devices under phase one by this month, before running phase two next month and completing it by this November.

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