KUALA LUMPUR – The 12th Malaysia Plan (12MP) Mid-Term Review (MTR) is set to be tabled by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim at the special meeting of the Dewan Rakyat today.
According to the Dewan Rakyat calendar, the 12MP MTR is scheduled to be tabled at 10am on Monday, with no afternoon sitting, as the debate will begin on Tuesday and continue through Thursday. Ministerial responses are scheduled for the following Monday and Tuesday, September 18 to 19.
The meeting will be broadcast live through the Malaysian Parliament’s official YouTube channel and several television stations.
This is the first tabling of the MTR by the unity government since forming the government after the 15th general election on November 19 last year.
12MP, with an allocation of RM400 billion, tabled on September 27, 2021, is the complementary phase of the country’s five-year development plan (2021-2025) to achieve the status of a developed and inclusive country.
The 12MP MTR was conducted to evaluate the achievements of the five-year plan in its first two years (2021-2022) and the direction for the next three years (2023-2025) in order to achieve a sustainable, prosperous, and high-income nation, taking into account current domestic challenges and global trends.
The review focuses on two primary aspects, the first being re-evaluation and re-assessment, which includes accomplishments, gap analysis, improvement and new direction proposals, and the second being the efficiency of programme and development project implementation.
On September 7, Economy Minister Rafizi Ramli was reported to have said that the 12MP needed to be evaluated in its entirety as the assumptions or plans made prior to the Covid-19 pandemic from 2020 to 2022 have rendered a number of things obsolete.
On June 19, the Prime Minister convened a special meeting with cabinet ministers and secretaries-general of ministries to discuss the 12MP MTR, and it was agreed that all parties needed to work together to expedite the implementation of planned reforms and economic initiatives. – September 11, 2023