{"id":1866,"date":"2008-05-04T23:02:46","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T15:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2008\/05\/04\/gerakan-forms-committee-to-solve-tamil-schools-problems\/"},"modified":"2008-05-04T23:02:46","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T15:02:46","slug":"gerakan-forms-committee-to-solve-tamil-schools-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2008\/05\/04\/gerakan-forms-committee-to-solve-tamil-schools-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerakan forms committee to solve Tamil schools problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Really 400 schools closed down since 1979? Wow! Anyway, good luck to Gerakan. They will be going against UMNO if want to fight for Tamil schools. These guys no need to create another committee, just work with exiting ones like HINDRAF, Tamil Foundation, EWRF, Tamil HM Association, MIC (heaven forbid!), the school PTAs etc.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure how serious is Gerakan since they are not Indian-friendly party. No “suitable” candidates it seems for recent elections. So, how to have faith in people like Dr Krishnan?<\/p>\n

Solution is simple for layman like me. Change the law. How difficult is that? Difficult since one good-for-nothing political party opposes it. All it needs is to get the legal team to draft changes, and vote in parliament. Which right minded parliamentarian won’t vote for converting partially-aided schools to fully-aided ones – (by buying the land or allowing for funds for such schools on par with other schools)? I bet there will be a bunch of them who are against it. They won’t let fellow coalition MPs to support such motion as well, if it was from the opposition.<\/p>\n

This Gerakan effort will fail. If successful, MIC can close shop.<\/p>\n

Gerakan man to look into Tamil school woes<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nKUALA LUMPUR: A Gerakan Youth leader is taking up the cause of Tamil schools, saying they should not remain the “stepchildren” of the education system<\/span><\/strong>.
\nDr G. Krishan, a member of the Gerakan Youth central committee, said more than 400 Tamil schools had been closed since 1979 mainly because of a lack of students and land problems<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

He said these and other issues would be tackled by the G<\/span>erakan Indian Task Force Education Committee<\/span><\/strong>, which held its inaugural meeting yesterday. Krishnan, who chairs the committee, said efforts would be made to ensure that the 524 Tamil schools in the country were fully aided and had proper infrastructure<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Citing the case of S<\/span>K Tamil Kuala Sepetang in Perak, where 67 students were studying in two cabin-like structures<\/span><\/strong>, Krishnan said it was time such schools were given proper premises.\u00a0 The Education Ministry had promised to look into the problem four years<\/span><\/strong> ago but nothing had come of it. The committee will visit the Kuala Sepetang school as well as six others to get a more comprehensive picture of the problems facing Tamil schools<\/strong><\/span>. “We will be talking to teachers, parents and students.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Really 400 schools closed down since 1979? Wow! Anyway, good luck to Gerakan. They will be going against UMNO if want to fight for Tamil schools. These guys no need to create another committee, just work with exiting ones like HINDRAF, Tamil Foundation, EWRF, Tamil HM Association, MIC (heaven forbid!), the school PTAs etc. I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[19,70,103,20],"class_list":["post-1866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","category-tamil-schools","tag-education","tag-gerakan","tag-marginalisation","tag-tamil-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866","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=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}