{"id":7435,"date":"2011-06-10T17:51:50","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T09:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=7435"},"modified":"2011-06-10T17:51:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T09:51:50","slug":"tekun-recipients-in-kl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2011\/06\/10\/tekun-recipients-in-kl\/","title":{"rendered":"TEKUN recipients in KL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rm320k \/ 37 recipients = average RM8648 per person. \u00a0Was wondering when the TEKUN loan recipients was announced.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BEAUTICIAN Stephanie Reavathi Marimuthu has been wanting to upgrade her beauty business in Lebuh Ampang, Kuala Lumpur for a long time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 35-year-old is now able to do so after receiving a RM15,000 loan from the Economy Funds Venture Group (Tekun) under the Young Indian Entrepreneurs Scheme (Spumi) recently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI wanted to upgrade and enhance my business into an academy status, but I was not able to because of lack of funds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe need money to buy the right tools for teaching. Now with this loan, I will be able to move forward,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dental technical support assistant Benedict Soosai also received a loan of RM7,000 to upgrade his business.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 37-year-old said he was grateful for the loan which he would channel towards buying dental spare parts for his business.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stephanie, Benedict and 35 other young entreprenuers received their cheques from Deputy Federal Territories and Urban Wellbeing Minister Datuk M. Saravanan at Kuala Lumpur City Hall recently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of RM320,000 was distributed to young entreprenuers and petty traders doing business in KL.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saravanan said the scheme was introduced by the Government to help Indian traders obtain micro credit loan to upgrade their business.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the scheme was introduced in 2008 and RM18mil have been disbursed to poor traders.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/metro\/story.asp?file=\/2011\/6\/4\/central\/8818559&amp;sec=central\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/metro\/story.asp?file=\/2011\/6\/4\/central\/8818559&amp;sec=central<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rm320k \/ 37 recipients = average RM8648 per person. \u00a0Was wondering when the TEKUN loan recipients was announced. &nbsp; BEAUTICIAN Stephanie Reavathi Marimuthu has been wanting to upgrade her beauty business in Lebuh Ampang, Kuala Lumpur for a long time. The 35-year-old is now able to do so after receiving a RM15,000 loan from the [&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],"tags":[115,84,230,24,225],"class_list":["post-7435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-economy","tag-funds","tag-kl","tag-mic","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435","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=7435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7436,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435\/revisions\/7436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}