{"id":6524,"date":"2010-05-03T22:26:19","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T14:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=6524"},"modified":"2010-05-03T22:26:19","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T14:26:19","slug":"which-rm130-million-is-it-for-tamil-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2010\/05\/03\/which-rm130-million-is-it-for-tamil-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Which RM130 million is it for Tamil schools?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is an interesting <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaysianinsider.com\/index.php\/malaysia\/61879-rm130m-federal-fix-for-tamil-schools\" target=\"_blank\">news release<\/a><\/strong> by Bernama. There&#8217;s no mention of when the allocation was approved or whether its an repeat news. As we know, the previous allocation were insufficient due to increase in construction material costs. \u00a0Its this kind of half-baked news that cause people to question or look down on the authorities. \u00a0I guess we are expected to be thankful\/grateful\/be-a-fool for this allocation (average of RM1.625 million per school) . Maybe should sing praises and kowtow as well, is it?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">KUALA LUMPUR, May 1 \u2014 The government has allocated RM130 million to repair and upgrade 80 Tamil schools nationwide, Deputy Federal Territories and Urban Wellbeing Minister Datuk M. Saravanan said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the projects were in various stages of implementation and expected to be completed within two years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI believe that with the allocation, infrastructure problems faced by Tamil schools can be overcome,\u201d he told reporters after opening the SRJK (T) Jalan Fletcher\u2019s sports carnival here today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saravanan, a former student of the school, said there were 15 Tamil schools in Kuala Lumpur and except for one, which is under a church management in Sentul, there was no problem channelling assistance to the other schools.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said Tamil schools needed the government\u2019s assistance especially in providing the infrastructure to ensure a conducive teaching and learning atmosphere in line with the vision to create quality human capital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saravanan said he was confident that under the leadership of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, there would be changes to 523 Tamil schools in the country. \u2014 Bernama<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting news release by Bernama. There&#8217;s no mention of when the allocation was approved or whether its an repeat news. As we know, the previous allocation were insufficient due to increase in construction material costs. \u00a0Its this kind of half-baked news that cause people to question or look down on the authorities. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,7],"tags":[84,225,20],"class_list":["post-6524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-indian","category-tamil-schools","tag-funds","tag-politicians","tag-tamil-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524","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=6524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6526,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524\/revisions\/6526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}