PUTRAJAYA: The government will spend RM158 million this year, compared with RM102 million last year, for disabled children.
Education director-general Datuk Alimuddin Mohd Dom said yesterday this was because the disabled children's special allowance was being increased from RM50 to RM150 a month this year.
"We would also be spending RM35 million on upgrading 701 schools with special education facilities," he said after attending a function where Tenaga Nasional Bhd adopted Putrajaya Special Education Service Centre (3PK) at the Education Ministry yesterday.
He said RM440 million had been allocated under the Ninth Malaysia Plan for 3,532 projects to improve and build new institutes for disabled children."Some of the projects include building two vocational special education schools in Merbok, Kedah, and in Kuantan, Pahang."
Earlier, TNB chairman Tan Sri Amar Leo Moggie handed a cheque for RM492,500 to 3PK patron Tengku Datin Seri Marsilla Tengku Abdullah, wife of Education Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein.
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