Padu might be reopened after March 31 deadline, says Rafizi

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After attending a soft launch of the KL20 Summit 2024 on Wednesday (March 27), Economy Minister Rafizi Ramli told reporters that the Central Database Hub (Padu) might be reopened to the public after the March 31 deadline.   Read more at https://tinyurl.com/ycxuxzc4  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 Yes.

00:01 So, Mr. Waibid, you said it's not as bad as the criticism.

00:06 Will it be more challenging for people to register in the next few days?

00:11 In my opinion.

00:12 If you look at it from last week, it has increased from day to day.

00:19 And I think part of it is our culture.

00:24 So, yesterday it reached 400,000 a day.

00:29 Imagine, throughout February,

00:32 even though Dawson opened the counter downstairs,

00:36 the registration was only 50,000 to 70,000 a day.

00:39 So, when we made the PC,

00:42 on the first day of March,

00:45 it increased from 70,000 a day to 220,000.

00:52 Then, it increased to 220,000, 240,000 a day.

00:55 Yesterday, it reached 400,000.

00:57 If it increases again, I cannot tell.

01:00 But I think the last minute factor is our culture.

01:06 So, if today it has broken 84%,

01:11 we have about 6 more days.

01:14 5 more days.

01:17 I think we should be able to...

01:20 What is it?

01:22 Today, it's about 8.4 million.

01:24 So, we should be able to cross 10 million.

01:28 10 million is a good figure.

01:33 Because, I was honest, the house is worth 9 million.

01:38 So, if we have 10 million adults who register,

01:41 we have a higher chance that

01:44 70% of the household has been verified.

01:50 I am not worried if people say,

01:52 "Why will the other 50% be affected?"

01:56 Because the data is already there.

01:58 The data of 30 million households is already there.

02:01 We just want people to verify it.

02:04 So, it can be verified.

02:06 And we also have to be aware that

02:09 most of the people who registered T20,

02:12 they don't want to register.

02:14 Or they don't want to verify.

02:16 Because it's highly unlikely that they are not eligible

02:19 and don't need help.

02:21 Even though we said 21 million,

02:23 we have to take 20% out.

02:28 So, you are actually looking at around 16 million adults.

02:33 So, if 16 million adults,

02:35 if registration and verification is 10 million,

02:38 that's 10 million out of 16.

02:40 5 out of 8, it's about 70%.

02:44 If we manage that, we more or less cover about 70% of the target.

02:50 You don't have a head of household and a household member, right?

02:54 So, if the head of household doesn't want to register,

02:58 is the government ready to provide a solution

03:01 for the household members to verify the information?

03:07 We have not built it until 31st March.

03:11 But I think that's also one of the things

03:15 that we have to take note of

03:20 so that in the next iteration of Padu,

03:22 because we will reopen Padu.

03:24 It's not just closing on 31st March,

03:25 it's the end of the world.

03:27 But if we don't close,

03:29 it won't be a solution.

03:31 So, we cannot move to the target of the subsidy.

03:33 But those issues are there.

03:36 There are also examples of husband and wife

03:39 who don't agree on who to register as the head of household.

03:42 We will take note of those issues

03:45 so that when we reopen Padu,

03:48 maybe towards the end of the year or a few months after this,

03:53 after we have started implementing the subsidy

03:57 and the cash assistance has been provided,

04:00 and we open for 2-3 months a year to pack this,

04:05 and features like that will be introduced.

04:09 Thank you.

04:10 [end]

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