In an earlier statement, Komala said RM1 million has been allocated. Now, it seems 200k was allocated way back in 2003, and another 400k was given recently.
Back to school – at council store
By DHARMENDER SINGH
KLANG: It's back to school for pupils of SJK (T) Tepi Sungai come Jan 3 despite the school’s two remaining classrooms being damaged in a fire last Saturday.
All 158 pupils will instead attend classes next door at the Klang Municipal Council ‘s (MPK) store that has been turned into classrooms for the school since part of the 100-year-old school collapsed in 2003.
Education Ministry parliamentary secretary Datin Paduka P. Komala Devi said MPK would clear out another portion of the store for two more classrooms.
Four of the school’s six classrooms, its office and teachers’ room have been housed at the store since May 2003 after part of the building collapsed and was later declared unsafe and demolished.
She said the school had already received 30 desks to replace the furniture destroyed. Forty chairs would be sent there soon.
Komala said the construction of the new building would start earlier than its scheduled date on Jan 21.
She said the Public Works Department had already sent its contractor to carry out renovation work on one of the school’s existing buildings to allow it to serve as temporary classrooms.
She said the Education Ministry allocated RM200,000 for the construction of the new building in 2003 and another RM400,000 was disbursed recently to get the construction under way.