RM6mil for Angkasa to boost cooperatives nationwide, says PM

KUALA LUMPUR: RM6mil has been allocated to Angkatan Koperasi Kebangsaan Malaysia Berhad (Angkasa) for various programmes involving cooperatives across the country, says Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

The amount includes a new RM2mil allocation to Angkasa, comprising RM1mil for programmes involving Asean cooperatives as Malaysia assumes the grouping’s chairmanship next year, and two RM500,000 allocations for developing and training rural mosque cooperatives.

Anwar also said a RM2mil allocation had been made by the Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Ministry for Rahmah Sales and another RM2mil from the Implementation Coordination Unit under the Prime Minister’s Department for the Program Sejati Madani.

“We want to ensure wider public participation in the cooperatives,” he said during the closing ceremony of the National Cooperatives Congress at the World Trade Centre Kuala Lumpur on Friday (July 26).