EDUCATION Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said steps were being taken to ensure that all Tamil schools become fully government-aided schools.
There are 524 Tamil schools in the country with about 150 of them in rural areas and estates, and being partly aided by the government.
Malaysia Nanban quoted Hishammuddin as saying that schools with enrolments with fewer than 50 pupils were be merged.
The government would build new schools, which would be fully aided by the government, for the purpose.
The minister was speaking to reporters after submitting the National Education Blueprint Policy in Parliament on Tuesday.