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Tamil Youth Bell Club raises Indian issues

May 26th, 2009
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The issues are:

–  no announcement in Tamil at international airports around the country.

– television news readers had failed to promote Indian culture through their dressing

– deejays on radio channels, especially Thr. Raaga, were not fluent in Tamil

In response, Dr S Subra said at the Tamil Bell function:

… agreed to bring the matter up to the Government, said television and radio channels should use proper Tamil in their programmes.

He said the influence of Western media and culture among the community’s youths had resulted in the lack of support for the community’s own religious and cultural programmes, adding that Indian organisations should act to preserve the Tamil language.

Subramaniam, who is also MIC secretary-general, said the party had urged the Government to include religious studies as a subject in Tamil schools as a way of inculcating moral values in Indian schoolchildren.

Yawn.

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redevelopment programme for tamil schools?

May 26th, 2009
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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.

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Petronas apologises over chemical leak incident

May 24th, 2009
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Following the chemical leak and subsequent protest by parents and NGOs concerned about SJKT Ladang Emerald, the below action were taken by Petronas. They had a meeting with the concerned people on Friday:

Pupils, teachers and other staff of SJK (T) Ladang Emerald who were affected by a chemical leak last Tuesday will receive free medical check-up from Petronas.

The company will also reimburse all medical expenses incurred in the treatment of the students.

Petronas Gas officials, together with the Health Department and Department of Occupational Safety and Health officers, had a meeting yesterday with the school administration and the Parent-Teacher Association.

Petronas officers apologised for the chemical leak and explained how the leak occurred while the Health department officers gave an explanation on the effects of the chemical, ethyl mercaptan.

Kota Raja member of parliament Dr Siti Mariah Mahmud also attended the meeting. She later said Petronas had also agreed to carry out community service projects at the school.
The company also gave an assurance that such an incident would not recur and all safety aspects would be strictly followed.

The leak occurred during an annual maintenance work by a contractor appointed by Petronas at 11am on Tuesday.

The Shah Alam City Gate facility, a gas sub-station, regulates natural gas flow to industries in Shah Alam.

The chemical was being added to the gas when the leak occurred and a gust of wind blew it into the school in Jalan Bukit Kemuning, 300m away. Ethyl mercaptan is used to give a strong odour to natural gas.

… During yesterday’s meeting, Petronas ruled out moving the facility as it had been there for more than 10 years, before the area became developed.

PTA chairman S. Murugiah said the medical check-up would be done in medical camps to be run by Petronas for two months.

He said he was happy with the assurance by Petronas that they were taking all possible measures to ensure such leaks did not recur.

Looks like a lot of work for Petronas over the blunder. Perhaps the school could have requested 20 PCs as well 🙂

It goes without saying that the procedures should be reviewed, the contractor penalised and more stringent methods are introduced.

We hope such incidents do not occur, but all is easier said than done. Petronas won’t move the statio since it came before the school. So, move the school?

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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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Johor Science Fair For Young Children 2009

May 22nd, 2009
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As received from reader:

Dear Brother,

On the 23rd of May 2009, we from Biro Kebudayaan Mahasiswa India is collaborating with Putera Mic Johore is organising Johor state level Science Fair For Young Children(SFYC) 2009 which will be held at Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM),Batu Pahat, Johor.

This is a fair for the young primary tamil school students around johore where the objective of this event is to develop interest among young indian students towards science and technology. Gradually, the students also will learn how to conduct,exhibit and explain the experiments that they have carried out. During the process of learning, the students will also develop the skills of retrieving information from the internet. This science fair is a being conducted in 3stages which includes the school level and followed by state level and finally the national level. UTHM will be conducting the state level for this year and National level will be handled by Universiti Malaya.

About 67 Tamil Primary schools where a total of 350 students will be participating at this fair which the students will be exhibiting at Dewan Penyu,Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia.This fair is opened to public and its from 9am to 6pm and will be officiated by YAD Datin Paduka Prof Dr Jamilah Bt Ariffin,Yand Dipertua of Juvita Organisation Malaysia.The Chief guest is YB Dato’ Dr S.Subramaniam,Ministry Of Human Resource for the closing and prize giving ceremony.

This is a huge and well planned programme which is for our indian young generation and we from the organising committee would like support in promoting our programme among the public.We would also feel gratefull if all IPTA/IPTS would promote our programme in your Universiti Bulletin about our programme.We rely anticipating your pressence to our programme and any information you can contact at 017-4156009.Thank You.God Bless.

Edwin Anand Raj
Head Of Bureau Publisity,
Sciece Fair For Young Children 2009
Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia

For more info, please refer also EWRF website which gives a bit of insight on the Science Fair and the various collaborators involved. So, those in the vicinity of Batu Pahat area may make use of the weekend to bring their kids or relatives to the fair and spend some quality time there.

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