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Amara in joy after family get birth certs

June 11th, 2009
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Great news indeed:

No words can describe M. Amara’s joy when she was informed that her four grandchildren would be issued birth certificates by the National Regis­tra­tion Department.

“This is help from God. I am very glad that my grandchildren can finally live life like other people. They can now go to school, get driving licences and even get married,” she said.

Her four grandsons – Maga­deren, six, Deva, five, Santhos, three, and Yuvan Raj, two months – have never had birth certificates.

They were all issued birth certificates by the NRD after a meeting at the department headquarters yesterday.

Family joy: Krishnan, Kanmani carrying son Yuvan and their other three children (from left) Santhos, Deva and Magaderen holding up the birth certificates at the NRD in Putrajaya Tuesday.

They are the children of Krish­nan, 27, who is Amara’s eldest son and N. Kanmani, 26.

Krishnan and Kanmani, together with his other six siblings – Prema, 23, Suresh, 21, Rajakumar, 20, Selvamoorthy, 18, Visaletchumi, 17, and Thanaletchumi, 12 – also do not have birth certificates or MyKad.

Amara’s youngest daughter Thurgathevi, 11, also does not have a birth certificate.

Umno Youth Community Com­plaint Bureau chief Datuk Muhd Khairun Aseh, who has been helping the family, said the birth certificates were issued after the NRD had verified the children’s status.

“We are very thankful to the NRD for its swift action and cooperation in trying to solve the family’s problem,” he said.

NRD public relations officer Jainisah Mohd Noor explained that birth certificates and MyKads for Amara’s children would only be issued after the department had vetted the documents they had provided.

“The situation looks positive as they managed to provide us with documents from hospitals to show that they were born in Malaysia,” she said.

Earlier in the day, Amara, who has never ventured out of Malacca, and her affected family members were picked up by several MIC representatives at their home in Rem­bia for the journey to Putra­jaya.

“I am happy but at the same time worried as I have never travelled far from home. However, I must make this journey for my family’s sake so that my children and grandsons will get their identification papers,” she said when met at her home before leaving for Putrajaya in a van belonging to the state welfare department.

The plight of the family was highlighted in The Star last Thurs­day. Following that, Umno and MIC Youth worked together to help the family out of their predicament.

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MIC and UMNO Youth team up to help Amara

June 9th, 2009
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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.

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Survey in schools to identify kids without birth cert

May 22nd, 2009
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A survey is planned by  Public Complaints Bureau to determine the number of pupils without birth certificates in primary schools, says Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Senator Datuk T. Murugiah.

He said he had received many complaints from parents and Parent-Teacher Associations that their children could not pursue secondary education as they did not have birth certificates.

Murugiah cited SJK (Tamil) Puchong where 16 pupils did not have birth certificates.

“This problem is rampant in many primary schools. I have instructed the bureau to send special forms to all schools so that they can tell us how many students don’t have birth certificates,” he said, adding the schools have one month to fill the forms and send them back to the bureau.

Its a good move. We hope to see the results of the survey and the follow-up actions, even if Murugiah may not around to see it in a month.

I remember last year, special task force were set up at NRD to facilitate identity document problems. Not sure what is the status of those task force now.

Even political party like MIC handles such cases, so one  can wonder if  the schools did not approach th party officials, since Tamil schools and MIC are very much intertwined.

Next question would be – is it the official responsibility of the school/HM/teacher to highlight such cases or can they just close two eyes?  It should be a moral responsibility of course, but then, not many teachers/officials would have the time or know-how to handle such cases. And some may think that even the kids’ parents are not bothered or unable to do anything, so why should the teacher get involved.

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no birth cert can go school

May 16th, 2009
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The issue of kids without birth certificates being rejected from schools have been around for ages. Last time, the Education Minister Hishamuddin announced that such kids will be accepted in schools, but the implementation by Education Ministry did not materialise properly. Parents still had problems because some schools said “no pekeliling came”.

Now, Minister Shahrizat announces similar thing  – as long as children are having referral letter from Welfare Department, they can go to school:

PETALING JAYA: Malaysian children without birth certificates can now attend government-aided schools provided they have a referral from the Social Welfare Department (JKM).

All they need is a confirmation from JKM or their village headmen that they were born in Malaysia, Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil said.

“Parents of children without birth certificates should come forward and seek assistance from the authorities,” she said during a visit to the Taman Megah’s Handicapped and Disabled Children’s Home yesterday.

Four children who were abandoned at the home have been unable to attend school as they were without birth certificates.

The matter, which was reported in The Star, caught the attention of Shahrizat.

She said her ministry had been working with the National Registration Department (NRD) and NGOs to provide birth certificates for these children and put them in school.

JKM Selangor director Adnan Abu Bakar said they would provide social reports and referral letters for the children.

NRD Births, Deaths and Adoptions director Mohd Azmin Hassan said they would wait for JKM’s referral letters before processing birth certificates for the children.

“We will try our best to get the birth certificates within a month, but we make no promises,” he said.

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only Malaysian father…

February 24th, 2009
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If I remember correctly, there’s no gender discrimination in the registration / immigration rules/acts (need to check).

But why is it the statement below was made?

The Education Ministry will soon issue a circular to all schools nationwide, advising them to accept all ‘stateless’ children, even if they have no birth certificate, so long as the father is a Malaysian citizen.

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However, the advice will come with a caveat: the children must have already applied, through the Malaysian parent, to the National Registration Department (NRD) for a birth certificate, citizenship or MyKad.

“A birth registration certificate will be issued to the child which will state that the child is not a citizen…,” deputy minister Wee Ka Siong said while on an official visit to Kota Kinabalu over the weekend.

“This will not be a problem as long as the father is a Malaysian citizen. The status of the mother is not important (whatever country) she is (originally) from…”

However, Wee could not categorically confirm, despite persistent questioning by the media, whether children of non-citizen fathers and Malaysian mothers will be accepted into government schools.

He merely said: “Malaysia definitely supports the Unesco policy of ‘education for all’.

Is this written down in law or just some SOP which worked it way in to the system? Aren’t we propagating equal gender rights?

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