Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email About three weeks back, Murugiah talked on creating a foundation called Tamil Schools Foundation. Now he talks about setting up a fund. What I don’t understand is why need to meet Prime Minister and Education Minister if money for the fund is to be sourced from donations from public and corporate figures.
Secondly, along with proposing such funds, PPP should also focus on getting schools to be fully-aided and try not to burden the community by asking for more money.
Not only independent committee, but a transparent-based set-up – from collection to disbursement. Nowadays, nothing seemed to be independent.
BTW, will Samy allow this or continue with his “sole champion of the community” mantra?
IPOH: The People’s Progressive Party is proposing to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Education Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein that a fund for Tamil schools be set up. It suggests seeking donations from corporate figures and the Indian community.Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s department Senator T. Murugiah, who is the PPP National Youth chief, said the fund would help schools in poor condition and lacking facilities. “The fund will finance the construction of facilities in such schools, which are suffering a drop in enrolment. The lack of facilities is one reason parents refuse to send their children there.”
Murugiah said the fund would be managed by an independent committee with similar committees formed at the state level to disburse aid.
“There is no political motive for setting up the fund. Our goal is to make Tamil schools conducive for teaching and learning, whether or not the schools are located in opposition-held states.”
Do we really need tamil schools? Why cant we make tamil a compulsory subject in national schools instead? Let us ask ourselves, how many indians actually feel proud of speaking tamil in public?
well, why not we suggest tamil to be made compulsory subject and see the response.
i feel proud to talk tamil. anyway, the reason to talk is to communicate. if its another tamil-understanding person, of course tamil will be natural choice. but nowadays we have bangladeshis, northern indians, non-tamil indians, africans, tamils from mixed-parentage, indian-muslims (malays?), whom we think can speak tamil, but actually they don’t.
i personally feel that many indians are no longer proud of speaking tamil in public. when a chinese meet another Chinese, they will speak in chinese, but when an indian meet another indian, they will speak in english. why is it so?