69 'Connecting the Unconnected' programs implemented

BAGAN DATUK: Up to 69 ‘Connecting the Unconnected' (CTU) programmes have been implemented since the beginning of this year to benefit almost 400,000 people in the rural areas throughout the country, it was stated yesterday.

Rosmahyuddin Baharuddin, undersecretary of the Control and Compliance Division in the Communications and Multimedia Ministry, said various forms of aid had been channelled through the programme to facilitate effective and comprehensive access to the communications network.

“We are committed to realising the government desire to ensure that at least 95 per cent of the people in the country have access to the Internet by 2020. Besides providing humanitarian services such as helping the less fortunate, the CTU programme also enables us to provide an improvement in terms of communications,” he said to Bernama after the launch of the CTU programme at the Bagan Datuk Tourism Complex here.

The programme was launched by Perak Human Resource, Youth and Sports Committee chairman Datuk Shahrul Zaman Yahya, who is also the assemblyman for Rungkup.

Bagan Datuk hosts the sixth CTU programme implemented in Perak this year.

Rosmahyuddin said the programme was an initiative under the National Blue Ocean Strategy which incorporates the cooperation of various agencies including private sector bodies such as Telekom Malaysia Berhad, Astro and telecommunication companies.