{"id":145,"date":"2007-04-23T11:30:02","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T03:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/born-in-malaysia\/2007\/04\/23\/newsselangor-to-help-estate-workers%c2%92-children\/"},"modified":"2007-04-23T11:30:02","modified_gmt":"2007-04-23T03:30:02","slug":"newsselangor-to-help-estate-workers%c2%92-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/04\/23\/newsselangor-to-help-estate-workers%c2%92-children\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS:Selangor to help estate workers\u00c2\u2019 children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Selangor to help estate workers&#8217; children<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/4\/23\/nation\/17519884&#038;sec=nation<br \/>\nTHE Selangor government will set up a foundation to help the children of estate workers in their studies so that they will not be dependent on estate jobs, said Tamil Nesan.<br \/>\nMentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohamad Khir Toyo said the state government realised that estates had to make way for development in future and there would be less estate jobs.<br \/>\nHe said the state spent about RM1mil last year on the education of estate workers&#8217; children and RM2mil had been set aside for the purpose this year.<br \/>\nLast year, he added, the state government worked with MIC&#8217;s Social Strategic Foundation to train children of estate workers acquire vocational skills at the Inpens International College in Klang.<br \/>\nThe daily also reported that all MIC branch chairmen in Johor had been asked to register Indian youths who attained the age of 21 as voters.<br \/>\nJohor MIC chief Datuk K.S. Balakrishnan said the chairmen must identify the youths and get them registered without delay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selangor to help estate workers&#8217; children http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/4\/23\/nation\/17519884&#038;sec=nation THE Selangor government will set up a foundation to help the children of estate workers in their studies so that they will not be dependent on estate jobs, said Tamil Nesan. Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohamad Khir Toyo said the state government realised that estates had to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[19,24,278,225,147],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-indian","tag-education","tag-mic","tag-ngo","tag-politicians","tag-selangor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}