Cup full to the BR1M for 6,000

SITIAWAN: SOME 6,000 residents of the Manjung district flocked to the Astaka indoor basketball court, here, to collect their RM500 vouchers from the 1Malaysia People's Aid (BR1M 2.0) fund.

The vouchers were dispensed over two days, from 9am to 5pm, at the event organised by the service centre of Lumut MP Datuk Seri Kong Cho Ha, who is also the Transport Minister.

The team of seven from the centre was headed by Kong's special functions officer Ting Tai Fook.
Four counters were set up to handle the steady flow of recipients.Abu Bakar Ahmad, 80, a former police volunteer reservist from Lekir, said he would use part of the cash aid to perform the umrahkecil.
Odd-job worker Hassan Basri Abdullah, 67, from PasirPanjangLaut, said he was grateful to the Federal government's effort to ease the people's burden.

The vouchers are cashable at Bank SimpananNasional, Maybank, Public Bank and CIMB.
UmnoLumut division committee member Umar Alus, MIC Lumut division assistant secretary KathiravanSuppiah and IPFLumut division deputy chief V. Periasamy were present to provide assistance.