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S wak to put more emphasis on four sectors
Efforts to ensure state has enough manpower to help country become a developed nation by 2020 CM
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Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud Chief Minister
By Jacob Ahchoi
KUCHING Chief Minister
Pehin Sri Abdul Taib
Mahmud said Sarawak will
put stronger emphasis on
human capital development
to ensure that the state will
have the manpower to help
realise its development
agenda
He said the state was
focusing on four sectors
manufacturing commercial
agriculture construction
and service
to steer the
economy to greater heights
Accordingto him the four
sectors were the core
economic activities with
which the state hopes to help
Malaysia
achieve
a
developed nation status or
Vision 2020
To ensure the successful
implementation
and
development of the four
sectors the state is placing
heavy
emphasis
on
developing our human
asset Taib said
He said this at the opening
ofthe RM11 20 million Open
University Malaysia OUM
Sarawak Learning Centre at
9th Mile Penrissen Road
yesterday
Taib
was
represented by Housing
Minister
Datuk
Amar
Abang Johari Tun Openg
who read his text of speech
Taib also stressed that
development projects must
be planned thoroughly to
ensure success
The Chief Minister said
that Sarawak had achieved
85 per cent literacy rate
through both its primary
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and secondary schools
throughout the state
The setting up of both
public
and
private
universities
and
skills
development centres for the
past 20 years had also
enabled the state to train
skilled
workers
and
professionals to meet the
demand of the various
economic sectors
Taib also said that the
development of Sarawak
Corridor
of
Renewable
Energy SCORE was in line
with Malaysia s aspiration
of attaining a developed
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nation status by 2020
presence of OUM in the state
He said the development was well accepted by the
of SCORE with a total government
as
the
investment ofRM334 billion university would give
and set to generate 1 6 opportunity to working
million jobs would spur people to increase their
Sarawak
towards
a professionalism He hoped
developed state status
ocals would make full use of
The chief minister said he
the learning opportunity
was glad to note that OUM
provided by OUM
was involved directly with
He said the government
the development of SCORE would ensure that all the
working with Bernard
Protection System EPS to
implement
training
programmes related to
electrical engineering
According to Taib the
people including those in
rural areas would get to
enjoy modern amenities
Among those present at
the event were Bengoh
assemblyman Dr Jerip Susil
and OUM pres ident and vice
chancellor Prof Tan Sri
Anuwar All