BN Manifesto eyes well-being of Felda community 
KUALA LUMPUR, April 7 (Bernama) --The Felda community will continue to be an important focus of Barisan Nasional (BN) as evident in its manifesto for the 14th general election which, among others, promises to provide a special incentive of RM5,000 to every Felda settler.
With the theme 'With BN For A Greater Malaysia', the manifesto launched by Prime Minister and BN chairman Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak today also promised to write-off Felda settlers' debts from the purchase of FGV shares.
BN also proposed to create a special grant for replantation worth up to RM7,500 per hectare for each qualified Felda settler in the next five years starting 2018. This grant is to reduce up to 70 per cent replantation debt of the settlers.
The manifesto featured a promise to allocate a special fund of up to RM300 million to write-off extraordinary or extreme debt of all qualified Felda settlers for the next five years starting this year.
It also contained these propositions:
- Allocating special funds to eliminate additional debts incurred by Felda settlers during the crop replanting process.
- Intensifying Felda 2.0 initiative via 15 plans for 2018 and 2019 with an allocation of RM300 million to create a smart community and sustainable local economy. This initiative will be for all Felda schemes nationwide and will benefit settlers and second generation of settlers.
- Constructing more Felda community houses, especially for the second and third generations of settlers.
- Upgrading 422 kilometers of roads in Felda areas.
- Adding signages, road markings and streetlights along 1,240 kilometres of roads in Felda areas to increase road safety.
- Establishing one-stop centres that include childcare centres and entrepreneur centres for Felda settlers in all Felda settlements, which are administered by the Confederation of Women Felda Settlers Malaysia.
-- BERNAMA
