{"id":860,"date":"2007-12-02T10:45:13","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T02:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2007\/12\/02\/khir-toyo-advises-indians\/"},"modified":"2007-12-02T10:45:13","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T02:45:13","slug":"khir-toyo-advises-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2007\/12\/02\/khir-toyo-advises-indians\/","title":{"rendered":"khir toyo advises indians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Change mindset and work hard, says Khir<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/12\/2\/nation\/19643401&amp;sec=nation\">source<\/a><\/div>\n<p>PORT KLANG: Let us sit and discuss issues together, Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo told the Indian community in Selangor.&nbsp; &#8220;The state government will play its part but Indians too must play a role to improve themselves,&#8221; he told reporters after inspecting the safety of the Pulau Ketam jetty here yesterday.&nbsp; He added that Indians must not think that they are marginalised simply because they are poor.&nbsp; &#8220;One must work hard to come up in life, as even Malays who are lazy will not succeed. The same goes for Chinese and Indians,&#8221; he said.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>The Mentri Besar urged Indians to place emphasis on their children&#8217;s education, as this would help free the community of its socio-economic problems.&nbsp; &#8220;I strongly believe that Indians can come up in life through education,&#8221; he said, advising more of them to pursue government programmes that could help them out.&nbsp; &#8220;Take, for instance, the RM3mil allocated to train and educate Indian students who did not do well in school.&nbsp; &#8220;Out of the 300 who enrolled, only 100 passed. Others failed and some did not even turn up for classes,&#8221; he said.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>Dr Mohd Khir said Selangor also provided council homes for everyone, but the Indians initially did not want to take up the offer as they felt that the RM25,000 price for each unit was too high.&nbsp; &#8220;Then, when the cost of the houses went up to RM35,000 they did the same and asked for a lower price,&#8221; he said.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>He added that Selangor was the only state that provides free land for the construction of temples.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>Dr Mohd Khir said he became Mentri Besar in 2001 at the time of communal clashes in Kampung Medan and he slept in one of the temples there during the two weeks when he was making daily visits to the place.&nbsp; He added that he spent time with the Indian community there and discussed with them their grouses and ways to overcome them.  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Change mindset and work hard, says Khir source PORT KLANG: Let us sit and discuss issues together, Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo told the Indian community in Selangor.&nbsp; &#8220;The state government will play its part but Indians too must play a role to improve themselves,&#8221; he told reporters after inspecting the safety [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[19,24,278,225,147,275],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-education","tag-mic","tag-ngo","tag-politicians","tag-selangor","tag-temples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}