KUALA LUMPUR: The number of heads of households in the hardcore poor category recorded under the e-Kasih system has dropped by 38.8% in the first 10 months of this year due to the government's poverty eradication programme, the Parliament heard.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 8 Law Minister Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said today said that 6,047 residents in the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur last year were categorised as poor.