Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email I’m a bit confused. Earlier, it was mentioned that RM300mil has been allocated for religious, Chinese, Tamil and mission schools in the second stimulus package. This is in addition to the RM200 million announced in first stimulus package. I read DPM Najib’s speech in the Star and its verified under point 37:
Improving School Facilities 37. To further strengthen human capital development, the Government will provide a more conducive learning environment. For this, an allocation of RM1.95 billion is provided to build and improve facilities in 752 schools, particularly in rural areas as well as Sabah and Sarawak. A sum of RM300 million from this allocation will be used to improve facilities in government-aided religious schools, national-type Chinese and Tamil schools as well as mission schools.
I thought the RM300 million will be divided equally (as was in the case of the RM200 million earlier) among the four types of schools. So each type will get RM75 million. Thus, you can imagine my surprise when Dr S Subramaniam said “the additional RM50mil allocated for Tamil schools by the Government under the second economic stimulus package will be used to rebuild 40 schools.”
So, looks like Tamil schools did not get an equal share, or is it a miscommunication by The Star?
He also added mentioned that RM30mil was approved by the Finance Ministry before the March 8 general election, and the total funding now is RM130 million. RM80 million has been disbursed through the PWD to rebuild more than 60 Tamil schools.
NOTE: I emailed Dr S Subra for clarification, but no reply received.
well i appreciate your concern on tamil schools. lets assume government has allocated 130 million. which school get it and how much as well as its usage? can anyone clarify.. we have newly established Tamil aaravariyam or Malaysian tamil school foundation. hopefully they can highlight some of this issue and monitor the implementation of this package since this establishment is apolitical…..we need apolitical approach to our economic(Dewan perniagaan India), social(ngo) and religious(like mhs) so we are united…….. political appproach is a tool to achieve all this not other way round..tq anyway i have a comprehensive approach plan to all this..maybe i can email u later…..
which school and how much? well, i doubt if anyone would release such info. ppl will start to ask questions, and it will end up looking bad for MOE, school, PPD, and MIC.
FYI, tamil aravariyam (tamil foundation) has been around for some years already. the other one – tamil schools foundation is less than one year old, established by Murugiah (PPP) – so i don’t think its apolitical.
i just hope that the economy would recover very soon because of the Stimulus Package given by our government
i hope that those Stimulus Package coming from the government would really kick start the Economy. the economic recession has been very bad on my business. ““`
I think that the stimulus package have helped a lot in restoring the economy. right now we can see some improvements in the economy. right now we can see some improvements in the eco,,*