{"id":4939,"date":"2009-05-26T00:31:20","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T16:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=4939"},"modified":"2009-05-26T00:31:20","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T16:31:20","slug":"redevelopment-programme-for-tamil-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2009\/05\/26\/redevelopment-programme-for-tamil-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"redevelopment programme for tamil schools?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I never heard of any Government “redevelopment progamme”, let alone the second phase of it. As far as I know, there’s two stimulus packages in the last 7 months. Is that the same thing? Total allocation for “rebuilding” and “repairing” Tamil schools is RM130 million (30+50+80). The 60 (or 62\u00a0 as mentioned below) schools are under the RM80 million package.<\/p>\n

Redevelopment = rebuilding and\/or repairing?<\/p>\n

I’m totally lost here, so hopefully some of the MIC fellas will clear the air over Samy’s statements<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Sixty Tamil schools will be rebuilt, many with new buildings, under the second phase of the Government\u2019s redevelopment programme, MIC president Datuk Seri S. samy Vellu said.<\/p>\n

The schools would be redeveloped under the RM100mil fund allocated by the Government<\/strong><\/span>, he said after visiting the partially-burnt Selangor River Tamil school here with Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister\u2019s Department, Datuk S.K. Devamany, on Monday.<\/p>\n

Samy Vellu said 72 Tamil schools have already been redeveloped under the first phase<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n

There are about 525 Tamil schools in the country, with more than 300 schools falling under the partially-aided government schools category.<\/p>\n

Samy Vellu said the Public Works Department had recently tendered out the projects for the 62 schools, with work on the schools to commence soon.<\/p>\n

On the Selangor River Tamil school, he said RM650,000 has been set aside by the Government to build a new building that would cater for six to seven classrooms.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I never heard of any Government “redevelopment progamme”, let alone the second phase of it. As far as I know, there’s two stimulus packages in the last 7 months. Is that the same thing? Total allocation for “rebuilding” and “repairing” Tamil schools is RM130 million (30+50+80). The 60 (or 62\u00a0 as mentioned below) schools are […]<\/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":[19,84,24,225,20],"class_list":["post-4939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","category-tamil-schools","tag-education","tag-funds","tag-mic","tag-politicians","tag-tamil-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939","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=4939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4944,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939\/revisions\/4944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}