{"id":1469,"date":"2008-03-03T00:15:06","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T16:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/03\/03\/mic-advertisement-part-4-a-shame-for-the-community\/"},"modified":"2008-03-03T01:04:59","modified_gmt":"2008-03-02T17:04:59","slug":"mic-advertisement-part-4-a-shame-for-the-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/03\/03\/mic-advertisement-part-4-a-shame-for-the-community\/","title":{"rendered":"MIC Advertisement part 4 a shame for the community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last part of the 4-series advertisement came out on Saturday. In this part, MIC lists out its track record in four areas &#8211; education, tamil schools, business, and charity. Unfortunately, there&#8217;s nothing about 1.5% equity target!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Going through the 4 advertisements, I feel very embarrassed and wondering if can sue the MIC. Their atrocious choice of words and grammatical errors can make people think that Indians have a bad command of English. The so-called sole representative of the Indian community must apologise for spoiling the community name in the eyes of multi-racial readers of the newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>If this is the level of language command among the leaders and this is the type of monitoring being done by MIC, God help us. Simple advertisement also cannot do properly, how to lead and champion the community?<\/p>\n<p>MIC Cares<\/p>\n<p>The power of the truth&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>MIC HAS A STRONG AND PROVEN TRACK RECORD FOR DELIVERY<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;EDUCATION IS LIFE LINE&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>MIC has dispersed a total sum of RM86 million for not less than 8,000 deserving students since 1985.<\/li>\n<li>MIC has invested more than RM490 million into its Asian Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology (AIMST) University which is a national pride for all Malaysians. <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">[what is the proof that the college belongs to MIC? Is it under a company incorporated under MIC? Is it possible AIMST can claim it is not affliated to MIC, that MIC is just a sponsor and have no stake in AIMST?]<\/span><\/li>\n<li>MIC&#8217;s AIMST will produce more than 12,000 qualified Indians who will spearhead Malaysian Indians as a respected community in the field of medicine, science and technology. <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">[produce when? Over 5 years, 10 years, 100 years?]<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The opposition has no plans whatsoever to help the Malaysian Indians in the field of education. <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">[is MIC sure about this?]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>MIC UNDERSTANDS THE COMMUNITY&#8217;S CHALLENGES IN THE COMING YEARS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CREATING WORLD-CLASS TAMIL SCHOOLS&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>MIC has revamped and re-built world class computer laboratories in 76 Tamil schools to provide IT literacy among Indian students<\/li>\n<li>Under 9<sup>th<\/sup> Malaysian Plan, a total of RM46 million have been allocated for rebuilding of Tamil schools. MIC has on its own initiative, obtained a further sum of RM30 million from the government for the betterment of Tamil schools. <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">[when was this RM30 million obtained? After HINDRAF rally? Why nothing on converting status from partially-aided to fully-aided? The RM46 million is only for the fully-aided schools]<\/span><\/li>\n<li>MIC has dispersed RM300,000 annually by providing free UPSR revision books and has produced not less than 2,800 7A students in Tamil schools since 2000. <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">[great!]<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The opposition has no plans for Tamil schools. <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">[Wrong! they have a plan, convert partially-aided schools to fully-aided status!].<\/span><\/p>\n<p>MIC WORKS FOR THE COMMUNITY WITH A BUSINESS-SOLUTION FOCUS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;GETTING INDIAN BUSINESSMEN FUNDED&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Through MIC&#8217;s sole initiative, the 2008 Budget has a special allocation of RM3 million for 1000 Indian entrepreneurs. <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">[compare that with RM18 Billion to help 130,000 bumiputera in just LAST four years]<\/span><\/li>\n<li>To create new Indian businesses, MIC has recommended and obtained the support of Institut Keusahawanan Negara to train and create 5,000 micro entrepreneurs by the year 2010. <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">[great news until you know that for the &#8220;privileged&#8221; people, its 1.1 million people trained in FOUR short years!]<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The Ministry of Finance has allocated RM3 million to MIC through Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia to identify 1,000 potential micro Indian entrepreneurs who require funds up to RM3,000 as revolving fund. <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">[hmm&#8230;point number 1 above also says RM3 million for 1000 people. Is it the same thing in different words?]<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The opposition has &#8220;no business in business&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MIC WORKS HAND IN HAND WITH THE GOVERNMENT TO ADDRESS CHALLENGES FACED BY THE\u00a0 INDIAN COMMUNITY.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CHARITY FIRST&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>MIC has given out a sum of RM3.2 <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">[the word &#8220;million&#8221; is missing]<\/span> between the year 2005-2007 to not less than 2,024 Indians to assist them to seek medical assistance, for natural disaster reliefs and various other basic human needs. <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">[why not use existing government aids? Or are all the welfare for certain people only?]<\/span><\/li>\n<li>MIC has secured RM1 million in 2007 and this was allocated to 200 Indian youths from poor families to secure places in local training institutes. <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">[great! compared to other races, how much is that?]<\/span><\/li>\n<li>MIC has assisted not less than 50% of Indian single mothers through financial aids and self supported programs. <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">[50% of how many mothers? Does this mean MIC knows exactly how many single parent of Indian origin exist in Malaysia?]<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The opposition, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccharity not priority&#8221;. <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">[err..how about making minimum wage Rm1500 or giving RM6000 per year as mentioned by opposition manifestos?]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The first three adverts:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/02\/27\/mic-advertises-its-achievement-in-papers\/\">http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/02\/27\/mic-advertises-its-achievement-in-papers\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/02\/28\/mic-advertisement-part-2\/\">http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/02\/28\/mic-advertisement-part-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/02\/29\/mic-advertisement-part-3\/\">http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/02\/29\/mic-advertisement-part-3\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last part of the 4-series advertisement came out on Saturday. In this part, MIC lists out its track record in four areas &#8211; education, tamil schools, business, and charity. Unfortunately, there&#8217;s nothing about 1.5% equity target!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[130,24],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-election-2008","tag-mic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","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=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}