Putrajaya told to reinstate budget to build childcare centres for frontliners

Putrajaya has been urged to re-allocate RM30 million to set up childcare centres for frontliners under Budget 2021.

This comes after a portion of a similar allocation made for this year to set up childcare centres at government agencies was redirected for other purposes.

Citing a parliamentary reply in July, DAP Segambut MP Hannah Yeoh (above) said RM24.5 million out of the RM30 million allocated in Budget 2020 had been rechanneled as one-off grants to 4,000 private childcare operators under the National Economic Recovery Plan (Penjana)...