PARLIAMENT | Putrajaya was "stuck" with an RM196 million bill for the MySejahtera smartphone application even though it was started off as corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative.

Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that initially, the application vendor KPISoft Sdn Bhd was given a limited scope to build the application that contained features for self-monitoring, contact tracing and individual information.

Khairy explained that as the pandemic unfolded, new features had to be added to MySejahtera, involving 300 back-end builds and 53 mobile builds over two years...