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I was wondering what happened to the cabinet committee on indian community. After the first meeting, it was supposed to have another one in August or September. No one actually talked about the second meeting. And I thought I missed. Now, Samy says only one meeting was held so far.

MIC is asking for another committee - this time to coordinate the RM50 million to help Tamil schools. Good thing - but hopefully it would hold more than one meeting every four months.

As for the proposals, the MIC is asking for speedier processing so that PNB can start selling units to Indians and schools can be renovated/rebuilt. If nothing moves in the next 6 months, then its will be a humiliation to MIC. Already 2 months over and nothing happened. How long should the community wait for “good news”, “agreement in principle”, “decisions”, “allocations”, etc to materialise?

The MIC has urged the Government to set up a committee to co-ordinate the rebuilding and refurbishing of Tamil schools using a RM50mil allocation under the stimulus package.

Its president, Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu, said the proposal would be tabled by secretary-general Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam, who is also the Human Resources Minister, at the next Cabinet meeting.

“We want 60% of the Tamil schools to be rebuilt or refurbished before 2011,” he said in a statement here yesterday.

There are 523 Tamil schools in the country.

Samy Vellu said the party also urged the Government to expedite the implementation of the proposals submitted to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Finance Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak to increase equity participation of Indians.

“The proposals include the setting up of a mechanism within the Perbadanan Nasional Bhd to assist poor Indians to buy shares through a 50% grant and 50% loan from the Government,” he said.

Samy Vellu said they would ask Najib, the chairman of the Cabinet Committee for the development of Indians, to hold a meeting every three months. The last meeting was on July 1.

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For all categories. They are getting smart now. But should have asked for 10 percent. I think government jobs will provide stability that may encourage couples to have more than 2 children. MIC also will monitor it seems. Hopefully they will share their findings from time to time.

The Cabinet has given an assurance that more Indians will be recruited into the civil service in the near future, Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr. S.Subramaniam said today.

He said the cabinet and the government were committed to ensuring that more applications by Indians would be approved based on their job descriptions and merit.

“The MIC urges the Public Service Commission (PSC) to ensure a minimum intake of at least seven per cent for all job categories in the public service,” Subramaniam, who is also MIC secretary-general, said in a statement here.

He said the MIC was monitoring the intake of Indians into the civil service and would raise the matter from time to time to ensure that the seven per cent target was achieved.

Meanwhile, Samy Vellu says they will request for more Indians in the Public Services Commission (Suruhanjaya Perkhidmatan Awam - SPA). He was unhappy that only 105 Indians were selected for jobs.

He said the MIC would also request for more Indian representation in the Public Services Commission.

“We are also not satisfied that only 105 Indians of the 2,000 Indians called for interviews by the Public Services Department were selected. Their selection was based on their CGPA grades. We feel the PSD should have also considered their SPM/STPM results.”

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I’m sure the public is well aware of statistics on income according to races as revealed in Mid Term review of 9th Malaysian Plan. Specifically the average income for Malays and Indians were listed as below:

• Bumiputera’s mean income
  increased by 5.2% to RM3,156 in 2007 from RM2,711 in 2004.
• Indians’ income rose 3.2% to RM3,799 from RM3.456

That means the Indians on average earned 20 percent more than the Bumiputras in 2007 (RM3,799 versus RM3,156). The acceleration rate is 5.2 percent for Bumiputra against 3.2% for Bumiputras. If this continues, its possible that in next 5 years, the Bumiputras will earn more than the Indians, on average.

I’ve always asking why the term Bumiputra (and not Malay) is used. What would the statistics be like?

Thanks to MP Charles Santiago’s question in the Parliament, we get more details as below. It makes me think why those fellows in MIC never asked for such details before in the last decade (at least to my knowledge).

The statement and tables below show that the Malays in Peninsular earned RM3,311 on average in 2007 while those in Sarawak Rm3,503 and Sabah RM3,089. That means it doesn’t a genius to know that actual poverty is among the real Bumiputras (averagebetween RM2,063 and RM2,857). Orang Asli in Peninsular Malaysia are the worst with income around RM1,397.

That means, in 2007 the Indians earn on average only 14 percent more than Malays in Peninsular Malaysia (Its a fairer comparison as most Indians live in the Peninsular). Given the benefits and privileges the Malays get, is it fair to say that Indians are doing better than Malays? Shouldn’t the non-privileged communities be given handicap?

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