{"id":5952,"date":"2009-11-06T23:38:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T15:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=5952"},"modified":"2009-11-06T23:38:17","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T15:38:17","slug":"rm12-million-books-allocation-not-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2009\/11\/06\/rm12-million-books-allocation-not-used\/","title":{"rendered":"RM12 million books allocation not used"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is an interesting <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2009\/11\/5\/nation\/5042746&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">news<\/a> (<\/strong>if its true<strong>).<\/strong> Using funds allocation for one purpose for another needs approval. Who gave it? What is the reason? Is the reason acceptable? Which non-Malay officers were involved in the decision- making (have to ask this question because it would be interesting to know)? Whose head is going to roll if this was a wrong decision? Forgive and forget?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps 1Malaysia campaign is being targeted at the wrong group?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">THE Education Ministry has not purchased any Tamil or Chinese books despite a RM12mil allocation available for the purpose,\u00a0<em>Tamil Nesan <\/em>reported on its front page.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It said the ministry had bought English and Bahasa Malaysia books but there was no circular on the purchase of Tamil and Chinese books for pupils.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The paper said pupils and teachers were disappointed as the books would have assisted them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The report added that publishers were also in a quandary as they had printed the books in anticipation of the ministry\u2019s order.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ministry had asked publishers to submit a list of their books in various languages for a decision to be made on Oct 28.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, on that day, publishers were informed that the ministry had decided to purchase Bahasa Malaysia and English books, with no mention made of Tamil and Chinese books.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting news (if its true). Using funds allocation for one purpose for another needs approval. Who gave it? What is the reason? Is the reason acceptable? Which non-Malay officers were involved in the decision- making (have to ask this question because it would be interesting to know)? Whose head is going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[112,19,84],"class_list":["post-5952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-discrimination","tag-education","tag-funds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952","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=5952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5953,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5952\/revisions\/5953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}