Education gets biggest share again


PETALING JAYA: The education sector remains the largest beneficiary of the revised Budget 2023, with a total of RM70.5bil – RM55.2bil for the Education Ministry and RM15.3bil for the Higher Education Ministry.

The revised budget is 5% more than the RM67.1bil allocation in Budget 2022 but less than the RM70.7bil budget tabled by former prime minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s administration on Oct 7 last year.

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