PUTRAJAYA: Various parties have been cooperating with the government in addressing the problems of the homeless people to help them lead a prosperous life.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said among the programmes already established under the Ministry of Federal Territories include the Kuala Lumpur Homeless Transit Centre, Homeless Guidance House and Anjung Kelana Transformation Centre.
Ismail said, the first Cabinet Committee Meeting for the Prosperity of the Vulnerable Groups that he chaired today was attended by the Ministers, Deputy Ministers and the senior officers of the related ministry and departments.
“The Committee is a special platform to study holistically the issues related to homeless care centres, children care centres, handicapped, senior citizens and tahfiz centres.
“The definition of vulnerable groups has been extended to 12 including homeless people, individual without travelling document (stateless), refugees, and people with infectious diseases, the poor and others.
“The formation of this Committee is to frame a holistic approach to ensure the welfares and the groups are protected from manipulation, negligence and abuse,” Ismail said in a statement today.
Ismail added, the meeting had also agreed to form an action plan (Blueprint) and the formation of a committee to fix the way forward for the homeless and the related issues. This is because currently there is no power source and specific laws regarding the operations and monitoring the homeless in the country.
The meeting had also agreed the Ministry of Women Development, Family and Community (KPWKM) to increase the registration of the existing care centres, to double enforcements on the centres and to review the Care Centre Act 1993 (506 Act) and the Procedures of Care Centres 1994.
Meanwhile the Facility and Services of the Private Health Care 2018 (802 Act) will be enforced as a preparation on Malaysia becoming an Old Nation before 2030 and to support the development of the private senior citizens health care centre industry.
On the other hand, the government via the National Tahfiz Education Policy (DPTN) will empower the education and standardising the management of tahfiz nationwide through five main principles namely, laws, tahfiz model, curriculum that fits the mainstream education, governance with integrity and coordinating tahfiz recognitions.
“Since DPTN was introduced in 2016, the number of registered tahfiz had increased from 571 to 1,208 tahfiz in 2022. The Federal and State Governments will have to study the status of the land to ease the care centres and tahfiz centres to get approval for operations,” Ismail said.
Ismail cited an example such as changing the agriculture land status to commercial to enable the centres to operate legally. The cooperation is very much needed in ensuring the community’s prosperity agenda especially the vulnerable groups in the Malaysian Family is successful. –Malaysia World News
