{"id":2050,"date":"2008-06-15T01:51:25","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T17:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/06\/15\/164-psd-scholarships-awarded-to-indians\/"},"modified":"2008-06-15T01:51:25","modified_gmt":"2008-06-14T17:51:25","slug":"164-psd-scholarships-awarded-to-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/06\/15\/164-psd-scholarships-awarded-to-indians\/","title":{"rendered":"164 PSD scholarships awarded to Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something fishy. Samy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Friday\/National\/2266425\/Article\/index_html\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> that number of scholarship awarded to Indians this is year (161) is more than double of last year, but Dato S.Subra <a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/06\/07\/begging-successful\/\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> last year it was 120 students. Anyways, it has been clarified that 164 students had been given scholarships, up to Friday noon. Meaning more to come?<\/p>\n<p>Out of the 164, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Saturday\/National\/2267440\/Article\/index_html\" target=\"_blank\">53 obtained medical seats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than resting on its laurels, MIC better start a pressure-cum-thinktank group to ensure this problem does not repeat next year. Perhaps they can set-up a clearinghouse or one stop centre for students to submit their application via MIC. As long as it does not create avenues for cronyism or corruption within MIC (wishful thinking?) Obviously the preferred solution will involve revamping PSD&#8217;s selection procedure, something quite impossible given the current political scenario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something fishy. Samy said that number of scholarship awarded to Indians this is year (161) is more than double of last year, but Dato S.Subra said last year it was 120 students. Anyways, it has been clarified that 164 students had been given scholarships, up to Friday noon. Meaning more to come? Out of the [&hellip;]<\/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":[19,84,24,225],"class_list":["post-2050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-education","tag-funds","tag-mic","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050","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=2050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}