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Cabinet Committee meeting only once

November 21st, 2008
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I was wondering what happened to the cabinet committee on indian community. After the first meeting, it was supposed to have another one in August or September. No one actually talked about the second meeting. And I thought I missed. Now, Samy says only one meeting was held so far.

MIC is asking for another committee – this time to coordinate the RM50 million to help Tamil schools. Good thing – but hopefully it would hold more than one meeting every four months.

As for the proposals, the MIC is asking for speedier processing so that PNB can start selling units to Indians and schools can be renovated/rebuilt. If nothing moves in the next 6 months, then its will be a humiliation to MIC. Already 2 months over and nothing happened. How long should the community wait for “good news”, “agreement in principle”, “decisions”, “allocations”, etc to materialise?

The MIC has urged the Government to set up a committee to co-ordinate the rebuilding and refurbishing of Tamil schools using a RM50mil allocation under the stimulus package.

Its president, Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu, said the proposal would be tabled by secretary-general Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam, who is also the Human Resources Minister, at the next Cabinet meeting.

“We want 60% of the Tamil schools to be rebuilt or refurbished before 2011,” he said in a statement here yesterday.

There are 523 Tamil schools in the country.

Samy Vellu said the party also urged the Government to expedite the implementation of the proposals submitted to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Finance Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak to increase equity participation of Indians.

“The proposals include the setting up of a mechanism within the Perbadanan Nasional Bhd to assist poor Indians to buy shares through a 50% grant and 50% loan from the Government,” he said.

Samy Vellu said they would ask Najib, the chairman of the Cabinet Committee for the development of Indians, to hold a meeting every three months. The last meeting was on July 1.

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MIC asks 7 percent for indians in civil service

November 21st, 2008
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For all categories. They are getting smart now. But should have asked for 10 percent. I think government jobs will provide stability that may encourage couples to have more than 2 children. MIC also will monitor it seems. Hopefully they will share their findings from time to time.

The Cabinet has given an assurance that more Indians will be recruited into the civil service in the near future, Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr. S.Subramaniam said today.

He said the cabinet and the government were committed to ensuring that more applications by Indians would be approved based on their job descriptions and merit.

“The MIC urges the Public Service Commission (PSC) to ensure a minimum intake of at least seven per cent for all job categories in the public service,” Subramaniam, who is also MIC secretary-general, said in a statement here.

He said the MIC was monitoring the intake of Indians into the civil service and would raise the matter from time to time to ensure that the seven per cent target was achieved.

Meanwhile, Samy Vellu says they will request for more Indians in the Public Services Commission (Suruhanjaya Perkhidmatan Awam – SPA). He was unhappy that only 105 Indians were selected for jobs.

He said the MIC would also request for more Indian representation in the Public Services Commission.

“We are also not satisfied that only 105 Indians of the 2,000 Indians called for interviews by the Public Services Department were selected. Their selection was based on their CGPA grades. We feel the PSD should have also considered their SPM/STPM results.”

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100 people needed

November 16th, 2008
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Everybody can contest. I want 100 people to contest the president’s post.

MIC President has given the green light. Let’s see if got anyone who will take up the challenge, besides Muthupalaniappan, that is.

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Murugiah on Indians without identification documents

November 15th, 2008
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As NRD opens its counters on weekends (half-day) from mid December onwards to tackle the stateless people case, Deputy Minister Murugiah provides some insight on why there are Indians without identification documents:

He said that some of the Indians who came to see him did not have birth certificates because their parents had not registered their births.

“As a result, they are unable to apply for an identity card, attend school, get a job or register their marriage.

“They live in perpetual fear of being nabbed and detained along with illegal immigrants.

“Their predicament is the result of their parents, mostly estate workers, being illiterate, poor, ignorant or irresponsible.”

Murugiah said most were displaced when plantations made way for development.

“Some of them may have misplaced or lost their documents and cannot trace them. They have given up hope of getting replacements because of NRD’s stringent procedures.”

Meanwhile, NRD director says:

He said NRD staff members would sit down with these people and try to identify the problem.

“But unless they come to us and give us some proof of being Malaysians we cannot help.

“Our officers will thoroughly investigate all cases. If they do not have any form of documents they could be foreigners trying to stay on in Malaysia or illegals.”

This is a good move as groups like MIC Youth and NGOs can make use of weekends to help the community.

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Statistics of Penang civil service employment

November 14th, 2008
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The Star had a mild version:

The Penang government will ensure all races have the same rights and opportunities to join the public sector and that the recruitment of state employees is not dominated by a particular race.

Deputy Chief Minister II P.Ramasamy said that as of Sept 30, 7,092 people worked for the state government, its statutory bodies and local authorities and, of the total, 81.95 percent were Malays, 12.92 percent Chinese, 5.05 percent Indian and 0.08 percent other races.

Meanwhile, opposition leader Datuk Azhar Ibrahim (BN-Penaga) said that to be fair, the state government should also ensure the Malays were given the same opportunities to join the private sector which was dominated by other races

But Malaysiakini provided the explosive parts (excerpts below):

The fireworks started when Deputy Chief Minister (II) Dr P Ramasamy accused the Umno-controlled Public Service Department (PSD) of ‘tearing up’ job application forms submitted by non-Malays.

According to the former UKM lecturer, this was among the tactics employed by the Umno-dominated government to stop non-Malays from joining the public service and to ensure that the government sector is controlled by one community.

“It’s a lie that non-Malays lack interest in joining the government sector. The truth is they were denied the chance to join,” he said in response to a written question.

“There are instances when government officers have torn application forms of non-Malays,” he added, drawing flak from the opposition.

However, the deputy chief minister insisted that his argument was based on facts unearthed during his own research on the lack of non-Malay participation in the public service.

According to statistics disclosed by Ramasamy, the public service sector in Penang has a total of 7,092 employees, with 5,812 Malays (81.95%), 916 Indians (12.92%) and 358 Chinese (5.05%).

The state public administration has 2,886 Malays (92.16%), 165 Indians (5.27%) and 79 Chinese (2.52%).

Statutory bodies have 191 Malays (71.54%), 46 Chinese (17.22%) and 30 Indians (11.24%), while local municipalities have 2,735 Malays (74.1%), 721 Indians (19.5%) and 233 Chinese (6.3%).

Later, Ramasamy explained to the House that the state government would conduct a study to implement a new policy to rectify the ethnic and gender imbalanaces in public employment based on meritocracy.

To a question by Umno’s Azhar Ibrahim (Penaga) on whether a similar plan would be extended to the private sector, Ramasamy assured the state government’s commitment to wipe out racial and gender discrimination in all sectors.

When Azhar demanded for the state government to unveil its plan in the next assembly sitting, Ramasamy hit back that the opposition was not qualified to give a time frame for the new Pakatan government to resolve an issue.

Hmmm..quite an arguement!

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