Budget 2020: DoE, DoC get RM30mil after year of pollution crisis


PETALING JAYA: The government will be beefing up the Department of Environment and Department of Chemistry with a RM30mil allocation to prevent another Sungai Kim Kim, Pasir Gudang and transboundary haze disaster.

Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng announced this during his Budget 2020 speech at Parliament on Friday (Oct 11).

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