{"id":351,"date":"2007-06-29T12:15:14","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T04:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2007\/06\/29\/more-committees-to-solve-temple-and-tamil-schools-problems\/"},"modified":"2007-06-29T12:15:14","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T04:15:14","slug":"more-committees-to-solve-temple-and-tamil-schools-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2007\/06\/29\/more-committees-to-solve-temple-and-tamil-schools-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"More committees to solve temple and Tamil schools problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>only word that stands out is committee. i remember MHS having a committee to discuss temple demolition. Then followed by Perak or Penang which asked its EXCO to lead a committee for temple relocation etc. Now, MIC want to have another set of committee&#8230; <\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Assume 3 schools merge into one -&gt; 150 schools become 50 schools. 523 &#8211; 150 + 50 = 423 schools. We also seem to hear MIC always discussing with education ministry. What is the outcome of these discussions so far?  <\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<h5>MIC wants space in new housing estates for temples <\/h5>\n<div>Minderjeet Kaur <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Friday\/National\/20070629085708\/Article\/index_html\">source<\/a><\/div>\n<div>KUALA LUMPUR, Fri:<br \/>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p>MIC will ask for space for Hindu temples at new housing estates where there are a lot of Hindus, to stop the sprouting of illegal temples nationwide. <\/p>\n<div>\n<table cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody><\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div>MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said illegal temples were becoming a major issue within the Indian community.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;They will continue building illegal temples unless we provide them space in their housing estate,&quot; he said after chairing the MIC central working committee here yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>He said MIC also wanted to combine smaller temples and would propose that the government provide additional land for this purpose.<\/p>\n<p>For a start, he said MIC state Exco members from each state would be asked to set up a committee which would be directed to meet every temple head and compile the feedback.  <br \/>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&quot;The committee will also inform the temple heads not to build any illegal temples.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Samy Vellu said the party was looking at merging partially-aided schools with fewer than 50 pupils.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Some schools have three teachers with four pupils. We are proposing to merge some of the smaller schools to increase the number of pupils,&quot; he said, adding the party would work on merging some 150 small schools. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;With the increase in number of students, we can ask for government assistance to provide more facilities in these schools.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>He said the move would allow them to monitor and enhance the educational level of the students and provide transport for those staying far from their schools.  <\/p>\n<p>On the discussions by party leaders with Education Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein on the future of these schools, he said: &quot;We discussed problems faced by some of these small schools. Some teachers do not receive salaries and schools are running without any facilities.&quot;  <\/p>\n<p>He said MIC would organise talks with headmasters and the parent-teacher associations from these schools to get their feedback and ways to improve the standards of the schools.<\/p>\n<p>He added some of schools saw a decline in the number of students after most of the former estate workers migrated to cities. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Previously, these schools had 120 to 150 students. But after the migration, the number has dropped drastically.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>There are 523 Tamil schools nationwide. <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>only word that stands out is committee. i remember MHS having a committee to discuss temple demolition. Then followed by Perak or Penang which asked its EXCO to lead a committee for temple relocation etc. Now, MIC want to have another set of committee&#8230; &nbsp; Assume 3 schools merge into one -&gt; 150 schools become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[19,16,24,143,148,225,20,275],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","category-tamil-schools","tag-education","tag-mhs","tag-mic","tag-penang","tag-perak","tag-politicians","tag-tamil-school","tag-temples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}