{"id":7936,"date":"2011-09-27T21:57:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T13:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=7936"},"modified":"2011-09-27T21:57:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T13:57:59","slug":"mic-committed-to-relocation-of-low-enrolment-tamil-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2011\/09\/27\/mic-committed-to-relocation-of-low-enrolment-tamil-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"MIC committed to relocation of low enrolment Tamil schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0I hope MIC&#8217;s commitment becomes a reality, and not remain just a commitment. I wonder where&#8217;s the plan (if there is one) which details the timeline for relocation of the under-enrolled schools. \u00a0I&#8217;m sure we would like to know the roadmap or timeline for relocation of each and every school mentioned, the budget applied\/allocated\/received\/spent, plus the status progress so far. Tha would be a good indication of &#8220;commitment&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MIC is committed to relocating Tamil schools with low enrolment to new areas with many Indian residents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MIC deputy\u00a0president Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam\u00a0said there were 14 schools which had fewer than 10 pupils and 69 schools with fewer than 25 pupils.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe have told\u00a0Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak\u00a0that MIC needs a big financial allocation to tackle the problem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI have also raised the matter in the Cabinet that no Tamil schools are to be closed but only relocated,\u201d he told reporters after a party seminar themed \u201cEnergising Indian Cooperatives\u201d, which was opened by MICpresident Datuk G. Palanivel\u00a0here yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Subramaniam said MIC was identifying suitable sites to relocate some Tamil schools and was confident this would cause the enrolment to rise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also denied a Tamil newspaper report saying that Sekolah Rendah Tamil Horvad, in Gurun, Kedah, would be closed because of poor attendance. He said a suitable site was being identified for the school.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was confident that the Indian community would continue to support MIC to ensure Tamil schools continued to exist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is estimated that there are 107,000 pupils in 523 Tamil schools nationwide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Subramaniam conceded that there were weaknesses in the process of improving and constructing additional buildings for Tamil schools.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe financial allocations for Chinese schools are given straight to the school organising committees but it is a different case for Tamil schools,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2011\/9\/25\/nation\/9571598&amp;sec=nation\">http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2011\/9\/25\/nation\/9571598&amp;sec=nation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0I hope MIC&#8217;s commitment becomes a reality, and not remain just a commitment. I wonder where&#8217;s the plan (if there is one) which details the timeline for relocation of the under-enrolled schools. \u00a0I&#8217;m sure we would like to know the roadmap or timeline for relocation of each and every school mentioned, the budget applied\/allocated\/received\/spent, plus [&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":[84,24,225,20],"class_list":["post-7936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","category-tamil-schools","tag-funds","tag-mic","tag-politicians","tag-tamil-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936","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=7936"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7962,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936\/revisions\/7962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}