Vision 2020 aimed to make Malaysia a developed nation by 2020, but many Malaysians feel more needs to be done to improve quality of life. Basic amenities like water and electricity are still lacking in rural areas. Public housing is often poorly maintained and many cannot afford it. Education is not compulsory and some rural schools have closed, while teachers' qualifications and school funding remain problems. Healthcare access is limited outside cities, with long waits and travel times. Rural transportation infrastructure is inadequate, with some areas only accessible by small planes or boats. Overall, the author agrees more must be done across economic, social, and infrastructure development to achieve Vision 2020's goals.
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As We Head Towards the Year 2020, Many Malaysians Feel That Much Remains to Be Done in Order to Improve the Quality of Our Life.
Vision 2020 aimed to make Malaysia a developed nation by 2020, but many Malaysians feel more needs to be done to improve quality of life. Basic amenities like water and electricity are still lacking in rural areas. Public housing is often poorly maintained and many cannot afford it. Education is not compulsory and some rural schools have closed, while teachers' qualifications and school funding remain problems. Healthcare access is limited outside cities, with long waits and travel times. Rural transportation infrastructure is inadequate, with some areas only accessible by small planes or boats. Overall, the author agrees more must be done across economic, social, and infrastructure development to achieve Vision 2020's goals.
Vision 2020 aimed to make Malaysia a developed nation by 2020, but many Malaysians feel more needs to be done to improve quality of life. Basic amenities like water and electricity are still lacking in rural areas. Public housing is often poorly maintained and many cannot afford it. Education is not compulsory and some rural schools have closed, while teachers' qualifications and school funding remain problems. Healthcare access is limited outside cities, with long waits and travel times. Rural transportation infrastructure is inadequate, with some areas only accessible by small planes or boats. Overall, the author agrees more must be done across economic, social, and infrastructure development to achieve Vision 2020's goals.
As we head towards the year 2020, many Malaysians feel that
much remains to be done in order to improve the quality of our
life. Do you agree? Give your opinion. You should write at least 350 words.
Vision 2020 is a Malaysian ideal introduced by the former Prime
Minister of Malaysia, Dato Seri Dr. Mahathir bin Mohammad during the tabling of the Sixth Malaysian Plan in 1991. The vision calls for the nation to achieve a self-sufficient industrialized nation by the year 2020, encompasses all aspects of life, from economic prosperity, social well-being, educational world class, political stability, as well as psychological balance. Now, we still have 4 more years to go to achieve Vision 2020. Four years time seem not long enough and not short too. Yet, many Malaysians feel that much remains to be done in order to improve the quality of our life.
In order to achieve a developed-nation status, the quality of life
has to be improved. Basically, the quality of life can be improved by providing complete basic amenities to the people. Parts of Malaysia still do not have clean piped water and electricity, namely the interior of Sabah and Sarawak as those places are very much out of the way. Even the local people find it difficult to get there. Moreover, not all citizens have modern housing with proper sanitation. Hence, the government build low cost government flats for the people to have a good life. Unfortunately, the good life does not last very long due to its mismanagement. Most of the flats are in a state of disrepair. Although the government has built the low-cost flats, but still lots of poor people cannot afford them. They then have to find other places to stay. As time goes by, squatter areas are common and are overcrowded. These areas normally do not have good management on rubbish collection and cleanliness.
The second problem that Malaysians feel that need to be
improved as we head towards the year 2020 is our countrys education. Education is still not compulsory in our country. Some children who stayed in rural areas are deprived of education due to the lack of schools in their places. Another factor that worsens the problem is some schools are closed because of the small number of students as a result of rural-urban migration. At the same time, many parents have started to question the quality of education. Although our current Educations Minister have published the Malaysian Education Blueprint, still the qualification of teachers are questionable especially in teaching of English and Mathematics. Having the Malaysian Education Blueprint is not enough to prove the standard of our education if it is not carry out practically. Schools face lack of funds for equipment such as scientific instruments and the running of proper activities. Most of the practical activities cannot be done due to many factors, like lack of time on teaching the school syllabus and the wrong perception on practical activities. Students and teachers have a misconception that practical activities are a waste of time. Therefore, government especially the Ministry of Education should play an important role in guiding schools, teachers and students on the right track.
As we head towards the year 2020, there are still many
problems in the health system. Our country still lacks hospitals and clinic and qualified doctors. Lots of people have to take a long journey to reach hospitals or clinics as their districts do no have any healthcare centers. Besides this problem, people face problem of long wait in the government hospitals and for treatment of serious diseases. Government hospitals offer reasonable price for medical treatment indeed, yet they do not provide an efficient service to patients. This really makes people fret. Medical treatments are only provided in the city. In contrast, basic healthcare is beyond the reach of many in the rural areas, to say nothing of any advanced medical treatments in the urban area. If there is a distinct borderline between rural and urban areas, how can we improve the quality of our life ?
In addition, there are many remote areas with no proper
transport system. In some places people still use primitive and dangerous boats to cross the dangerous rivers. In Sarawak, some areas are only accessible by very small planes or helicopters. Unfortunately, crashes are common because of the hilly terrain. It shows big differences when we make a comparison between the city and the countryside. Kuala Lumpur, has the modern means of transportation such as LRT, monorail and commuter. Such good transport system is only available in cities. In estates and plantations, transports of people and good are still difficult. Not only public transportations, even proper roads are difficult to find in the rural areas. Moreover, people in that area do not have a four-wheel drive due to its expensive price and the not easy accessible location. Even it they have cars, they might be spoilt easily because the improper road condition.
Overall, I think I agree that Malaysia still have lots of aspects to
be improved to achieve Vision 2020. Vision 2020 is not a programme or plan which can be accomplished easily if we are not putting more effort to it. We should brace ourselves to improve the quality of our life rather than to wait passively for things to come our way. Let us make Vision 2020 to be the mission possible instead of mission impossible.