PARLIAMENT | The government will upgrade the e-Kasih system with the use of new technologies to obtain more accurate data of people in the poor and hardcore poor categories, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin announced today.

He said RM6.8 million would be allocated to upgrade the database of the e-Kasih system next year.

“I’m aware that the existing (e-Kasih) system is not so effective, and that is why efforts are being made to improve it with the use of new technologies so that...