{"id":3850,"date":"2009-03-12T13:29:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T05:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=3850"},"modified":"2009-03-22T02:19:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T18:19:57","slug":"how-much-do-tamil-schools-get-under-second-stimulus-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2009\/03\/12\/how-much-do-tamil-schools-get-under-second-stimulus-package\/","title":{"rendered":"How much do Tamil Schools get under second stimulus package?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m a bit confused. Earlier, it was mentioned that RM300mil <a href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2009\/03\/11\/extra-rm300-million-for-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\">has been allocated <\/a>for religious, Chinese, Tamil and mission schools in the second stimulus package. This is in addition to the RM200 million announced in first stimulus package. I read DPM Najib&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2009\/3\/11\/minibudget\/20090311074124&amp;sec=minibudget\" target=\"_blank\">speech in the Star<\/a> and its verified under point 37:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Improving School Facilities 37. To further strengthen human capital development, the Government will provide a more conducive learning environment. For this, an allocation of RM1.95 billion is provided to build and improve facilities in 752 schools, particularly in rural areas as well as Sabah and Sarawak. A sum of RM300 million from this allocation will be used to improve facilities in government-aided religious schools, national-type Chinese and Tamil schools as well as mission schools.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I thought the RM300 million will be divided equally (as was in the case of the RM200 million earlier) among the four types of schools. So each type will get RM75 million. Thus, you can imagine my surprise when Dr S Subramaniam <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2009\/3\/12\/nation\/3457401&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> &#8220;<em>the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>additional RM50mil allocated for Tamil schools<\/strong><\/span> by the Government under the second economic stimulus package will be used to rebuild 40 schools<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So, looks like Tamil schools did not get an equal share, or is it a miscommunication by The Star?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also added mentioned that RM30mil was approved by the Finance Ministry before the March 8 general election, and the total funding now is RM130 million. RM80 million has been disbursed through the PWD to rebuild more than 60 Tamil schools.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NOTE: I emailed Dr S Subra for clarification, but no reply received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit confused. Earlier, it was mentioned that RM300mil has been allocated for religious, Chinese, Tamil and mission schools in the second stimulus package. This is in addition to the RM200 million announced in first stimulus package. I read DPM Najib&#8217;s speech in the Star and its verified under point 37: Improving School Facilities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[19,84,225,20],"class_list":["post-3850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","category-tamil-schools","tag-education","tag-funds","tag-politicians","tag-tamil-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850","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=3850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3852,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850\/revisions\/3852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}