PUTRAJAYA: The Ministry of Domestic Trade and Cost of Living will immediately activate the National Action Council on Cost of Living (Naccol) to find solutions to the cost of living issue plaguing the people.

Minister Datuk Seri Salahuddin Ayub said that he would immediately hold a meeting with the ministry's secretary-general Datuk Azman Mohd Yusof to discuss the matter.

“(This meeting) is for me to present to the Prime Minister measures to resolve some of the issues presented during a meeting between the Chief Secretary to the Government and secretariesgeneral together with the Prime Minister on Nov 27.

“Business is not as usual,” Salahuddin said at his first media conference at his ministry after the handing-over of duties by former Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Dato Sri Alexander Nanta Linggi to him here yesterday.

At the Nov 27 meeting, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim instructed Naccol to analyse and go through the subsidy implications within two weeks.

Meanwhile, Salahuddin said the move to change the name of the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs (KPDNHEP) to the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Cost of Living clearly showed Anwar's priority was to reduce the burden of the people's cost of living. — Bernama