Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe to poobalan.com by Email I never heard of any Government “redevelopment progamme”, let alone the second phase of it. As far as I know, there’s two stimulus packages in the last 7 months. Is that the same thing? Total allocation for “rebuilding” and “repairing” Tamil schools is RM130 million (30+50+80). The 60 (or 62 as mentioned below) schools are under the RM80 million package.
Redevelopment = rebuilding and/or repairing?
I’m totally lost here, so hopefully some of the MIC fellas will clear the air over Samy’s statements:
Sixty Tamil schools will be rebuilt, many with new buildings, under the second phase of the Government’s redevelopment programme, MIC president Datuk Seri S. samy Vellu said.
The schools would be redeveloped under the RM100mil fund allocated by the Government, he said after visiting the partially-burnt Selangor River Tamil school here with Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Datuk S.K. Devamany, on Monday.
Samy Vellu said 72 Tamil schools have already been redeveloped under the first phase.
There are about 525 Tamil schools in the country, with more than 300 schools falling under the partially-aided government schools category.
Samy Vellu said the Public Works Department had recently tendered out the projects for the 62 schools, with work on the schools to commence soon.
On the Selangor River Tamil school, he said RM650,000 has been set aside by the Government to build a new building that would cater for six to seven classrooms.
