Price standardisation programme to benefit over 4.5 mil rural folks: Ahmad Bashah

KUALA LUMPUR: The government is implementing the Price Standardisation Programme to ensure that over 4.5 million people in the the interior of Sabah, Sarawak and Labuan will enjoy subsidised goods at controlled prices.
Deputy Minister of Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism, Senator Datuk Seri Ahmad Bashah Md Hanipah said the subsidised goods include wheat flour, cooking oil, sugar, ST 15 rice, petrol, diesel and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).
The programme has ensured that subsidised goods such as sugar, wheat flour, LPG, diesel and RON95 petrol could be sold at controlled prices in rural areas," he said, replying to a question from Wong Sze Phin @Jimmy (DAP-Kota Kinabalu ) in the Dewan Rakyat, here today.
Wong would like to know the current status of the programme and whether the RM331 million allocation in Budget 2014 to implement it could standardise prices between Peninsular Malaysia and Sabah and Sarawak.
Ahmad Bashah said that a good example was the price of 14 kg cooking gas (LPG) in Ba'kelalan, Sarawak which could be reduced from RM70 to RM26.60 per tank. – Bernama