{"id":11056,"date":"2012-12-11T23:33:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T15:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2012\/12\/terengganu-proposes-rm1b-deficit-for-2013-budget\/"},"modified":"2012-12-11T23:33:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T15:33:37","slug":"terengganu-proposes-rm1b-deficit-for-2013-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/terengganu-proposes-rm1b-deficit-for-2013-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Terengganu proposes RM1b deficit for 2013 budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Ahmad Said said the state government  anticipated revenue to rise by 2.84 per cent to RM2.005 billion in 2013  compared to RM1.950 billion this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUp to 89.90 per cent of the revenue is expected to be garnered from  federal government sources, especially the federal government special  fund and annual grants, and the remaining 10.10 per cent from the  state\u2019s own sources,\u201d he said when tabling the budget in the state  assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad said that under the budget, the state government focused on the  continued implementation of projects and programmes so as to complete  them on schedule, such as the Jabor-Kuala Terengganu stretch of the East  Coast Expressway.<\/p>\n<p>This was because 2013 was the final year of implementation of the  Terengganu State Development Roadmap launched in 2009, he added.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that the state government allocated RM43 million to  reduce hardcore poverty to zero and poverty to one per cent in 2013, and  raise the current fifth position of Terengganu on the poverty list.<\/p>\n<p>In conjunction with Visit Terengganu Year 2013, the state government  has increased the allocation for the tourism sector to RM186.7 million  next year compared to RM138.8 million before this.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad said the state government had made Tasik Kenyir the primary  focus of tourism with an allocation of RM120 million for various  projects, including the development of a duty-free area and tourism  facilities there.<\/p>\n<p>For education, he said, the state government had allocated RM53.51  million for 2013. The allocation includes RM3.2 million for the \u201c1 State  Constituency, 1 Virtual Class\u201d project that has been implemented in 41  schools and involved 124 virtual classes.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that up to October this year, 21,596 standard four  pupils had obtained e-books and that since the facility was implemented  in 2009, up to 113,922 pupils had benefited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn line with the provision of e-books, 2,069 teachers have been given laptops to facilitate teaching,\u201d he added. \u2014 Bernama<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article\" class=\"article reset\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"decoded\" src=\"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sidang%20dun%20bajet.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.buletinonline.net\/images\/stories\/aberita11\/sidang%20dun%20bajet.jpg\" style=\"float: right;\" \/><strong>KUALA TERENGGANU<\/strong> \u2014 The Terengganu government today  tabled the state budget for 2103, allocating RM1.995 billion for  operating expenditure and RM1.076 for development expenditure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":{"id":11045,"alt_text":"http:\/\/www.buletinonline.net\/images\/stories\/aberita11\/sidang%20dun%20bajet.jpg","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":448,"height":315,"file":"2012\/12\/sidang dun bajet.jpg","filesize":30976,"sizes":{},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":11056,"source_url":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/sidang dun bajet.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}