Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email This is the kind of news people want to hear. Unfortunately, its rare. However, good to hear that meeting was set up in two days. Hopefully the family can get their documents within a month.
The 27-year plight of M. Amara, 48, from Rembia, whose seven children and four grandchildren have been living without proper identification papers, may soon end on a happy note.
Umno Youth Community Complaint Bureau chief Datuk Muhd Khairun Aseh said the Home Ministry had assigned a senior officer to personally look into the case.
“We are grateful for the swift response. The National Registration Department has scheduled a meeting in Putrajaya tomorrow. Umno Youth and MIC representatives will bring the family to the meeting,” he said when contacted yesterday.
Muhd Khairun said the bureau needed only two working days since last Friday to set up the meeting and to obtain necessary information for the department.
Umno Youth and state MIC representatives have teamed up to assist Amara in obtaining the necessary identification papers such as MyKad and birth certificates for her children and grandchildren.
The family’s plight was highlighted in The Star last Thursday. Muhd Khairun visited the family the following day to see how Umno Youth could assist in the case.
The affected children are Chrisdan, 27, Suresh, 20, Rajakumar, 19, Selvamoorthy, 17, Visaletchumy and Dhanaletchumy, 12.
All of them do not have birth certificates and MyKad.
Amara’s youngest daughter Turkatevi, 11, and four of her grandsons, age between two months and five, do not have their birth certificates.
Muhd Khairun said the Umno Youth would help accommodate the family if the department needed more time to process their case.
