‘Improved Perak PAC needed to boost authority’


Stately matters: A view inside the Perak state assembly while it was in session. — RONNIE CHIN/The Star

THE Perak Public Accounts Committee (PAC) should be reformed and empowered in dealing with issues under its jurisdiction effectively, says chairman Datuk Zainol Fadzi Paharudin.

He said the state government via the august House should amend the standing order related to the Perak PAC so that it will be on par with the Parliament committee.

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