{"id":2215,"date":"2008-07-18T11:21:17","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T03:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/07\/18\/no-school-because-no-birth-certificate\/"},"modified":"2008-07-18T11:21:19","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T03:21:19","slug":"no-school-because-no-birth-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/07\/18\/no-school-because-no-birth-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"No school because no birth certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"

The announcement that children with birth certificates can be enrolled in schools came in February. It was announced<\/a> by Hishamuddin (and repeated<\/a> by Deputy Prime Minister Najib) following cabinet decision:<\/p>\n

I have instructed all schools to accept these children. I have asked the headmasters and teachers to put themselves in an accomodative position. \u201cI do not want to hear any headmaster blocking or rejecting such applications<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Students just have to get letter from village head or Village committee chairman, for example to get enrolled.<\/p>\n

But, today’s Star<\/a> highlights a case in Ipoh where children from a welfare home (note: registration status unknown) who are unable to attend school due to lack of birth certificate.<\/p>\n

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Caught in a bind: (From left) Tharsini, 10, N. Pandian, seven, S. Velan, 11, N. Roja, five and N. Dineshkumar, six, posing for journalists in Ipoh Thursday. <\/div>\n

Her guardian (note: legal or not?) Babaji Indhu Adigalar (of the Arutperum Jothi Children’s Welfare Home) said that besides Tharsini, his four other charges aged between five and 11 years were also facing the same problem.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been trying to enrol them into primary schools since 2004 but the children were turned away because they do not have birth certificates,\u201d said the 60-year-old, adding that he had documents (note: acceptable documents?) proving the children were born in Malaysia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Speaking to reporters from their home in Buntong here yesterday, Babaji said he thought his problems were over when the ministry made the announcement.<\/p>\n

However, the children and I were again left disappointed when the schools that I approached refused to admit them as they claimed there had been no circular on the matter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Babaji, who sought the assistance of Perak MIC (note: Why not Pakatan?), said the five children had been abandoned by their parents.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause of that, I face difficulty in getting them birth certificates,\u201d he said, adding that attempts to get in touch with the children\u2019s next-of-kin had failed. As a result, the children have only attended kindergarten.<\/p>\n

State MIC chairman Datuk G. Rajoo said a check with the Education Department on Monday confirmed that such a circular had not been issued. \u201cI urge the Ministry to do so fast as the children\u2019s future is at stake,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Issue here: Outcome of decision made in February is not available. Delay of nearly 5 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The announcement that children with birth certificates can be enrolled in schools came in February. It was announced by Hishamuddin (and repeated by Deputy Prime Minister Najib) following cabinet decision: I have instructed all schools to accept these children. I have asked the headmasters and teachers to put themselves in an accomodative position. \u201cI do […]<\/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":[188,19,24,225],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-indian","tag-birth-cert","tag-education","tag-mic","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","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=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}