KUANTAN, Oct 27 — The Pahang state government has allocated more than RM3 million to prepare for the 2026/2027 Northeast Monsoon (MTL), including the early delivery of aid supplies to 167 forward bases statewide.
Pahang Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Wan Rosdy Wan Ismail said the state government, through the Pahang Social Welfare Department (JKM), had coordinated a total allocation of RM3,785,115.30 for dry food supplies, logistics, transportation and labour costs across 11 districts.
He said 332,906 units of dry food supplies, comprising nine basic food items weighing a total of 225.11 tonnes, would be distributed to the forward bases from today until Nov 14.
“These include five-kilogram bags of imported Super rice, one-kilogram packs of granulated sugar, two-kilogram packs of cooking oil, 400-gram packs of iodised white salt, Kopi-O bags, tea bags, sardines, chicken curry and assorted biscuits,” he said in a statement today.
