By Norrasyidah Arshad
GOMBAK, April 18 — The Iltizam Selangor Penyayang (ISP) programme to help the people through several state initiatives will be implemented after the Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebration.
Menteri Besar Dato’ Seri Amirudin Shari said the assistance covering various schemes was based on efforts to empower the people so that they no longer need to rely on the state government.
“In 2008, we helped the people by sharing the state’s wealth. In 2013 we helped by giving what the people requested.
“In 2018 until now we changed the programme. We want to empower the people through each programme,” he said at the Iftar Perdana ceremony with the leadership of the Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Gombak branch at Dewan Seri Siantan here yesterday.
Amirudin said through ISP, more citizens would receive benefits, among them are 30,000 families who received the Bantuan Kehidupan Sejahtera Selangor (Bingkas) ) initiative which replaced Kasih Ibu Smart Selangor (KISS).
“Instead of RM200, they (the families) will receive RM300 every month after this Hari Raya. We also extended the health screening to cover men for the detection of colon cancer.
“The Tunas (kindergarten assistance) programme is now turned into ANiS (Anak Istimewa Selangor). Today we can see the Bella (abuse) case happening. Through ANiS, we monitor the welfare home and train the caregivers to prevent similar Bella cases from recurring,” he said.
Previously, Amirudin had said that the branding of the Inisiatif Peduli Rakyat to Iltizam Selangor Penyayang was in line with the improvement of several programmes to develop a caring culture among Selangor citizens.
