KUALA LUMPUR: PAC is watching – that’s the mantra of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) which needs projects carried out beneath the twelfth Malaysia Plan (12MP) be free of the weather of misappropriation, abuse of energy and wastage.
PAC chairman, Wong Kah Woh stated the committee determined to be concerned proactively and to hold proceedings in making certain that the event allocation of RM400bil for the subsequent interval of 5 years be spent prudently, transparently and responsibly.
“The ministries and authorities companies ought to know that the ‘PAC is watching’ on a regular basis within the implementation of projects and spending of public funds,” he stated in a press release, right here, on Tuesday (Dec 14).
Wong stated the proceedings associated to implementation of the 12MP had began with the Finance Ministry and Economic Planning Unit (EPU) beneath the Prime Minister’s Department referred to as for Tuesday’s continuing.
At the the two-and-half-hour continuing that started at 10.30am, the Finance Ministry was represented by the Treasury’s secretary-general, Datuk Asri Hamidon and the EPU by its director-general, Datuk Saiful Lebai Hussen.
Also current was the Finance Ministry’s nationwide finances director Datuk Johan Mahmood Merican.
“At at present’s continuing, Asri and Saiful defined the federal government’s process of implementing every 12MP mission, the financing supplied and management imposed to ensure its profitable implementation as promised,” Wong stated.
He stated the Finance Ministry and EPU additionally agreed to cooperate with the PAC in monitoring implementation of the 12MP projects, particularly the mega ones.
PAC would set a quarterly schedule for annually through the 12MP interval for the monitoring continuing, he added. – Bernama
