{"id":42201,"date":"2020-12-16T03:04:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T19:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/?p=42201"},"modified":"2020-12-16T03:04:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T19:04:25","slug":"slashing-tamil-school-funds-doesnt-make-muhyiddin-a-pm-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/slashing-tamil-school-funds-doesnt-make-muhyiddin-a-pm-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Slashing Tamil school funds doesn&#8217;t make Muhyiddin a \u201cPM For All\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/DAP-141220-04-charles-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18071\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Press Statement<br \/>15th December 2020<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWalk the talk\u201d, \u201cPractise what you preach\u201d, \u201cActions speak louder than words\u201d &#8211; you folks know the meaning, right?<br \/><br \/>Well, the Prime Minister and his government don\u2019t.&nbsp;<br \/><br \/>While Muhyiddin Yassin says the welfare of the Indian community is important, the severe 42% drop in allocation for Tamil schools reveals how the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government \u2018cares\u2019 for the Indians.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/><br \/>The projected allocation for Tamil schools is only RM29 million compared to RM50 million in previous years. This is disappointing to say the least.&nbsp;<br \/><br \/>It\u2019s a known fact that previous allocations were already insufficient, resulting in poor maintenance and lack of facilities in Tamil schools. I am talking about inadequate computers, broken chairs and tables, leaking roofs, broken toilets, and other maintenance issues.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/indian-schools.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18069\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the Tamil schools in Malaysia were built in the 70s and 80s. Almost 70% of the 527 Tamil schools are located in rural areas, and they are in dire need of an upgrade and maintenance.<br \/><br \/>The Malaysian Indian Blueprint (MIB) data shows that 13% of Indian students drop out at the primary level, also caused by the dismal condition of these schools.&nbsp;<br \/><br \/>On top of this, the Education Ministry has failed to take into consideration the impact of inflation and rising costs.&nbsp;And neither did it do a proper study and prepare a report on&nbsp;the status of Tamil schools in Malaysia, facilities available, building safety, maintenance schedules, and other relevant data before slashing the allocation.<br \/><br \/>Education is the only key to eradicating poverty among B40 Indian families whose kids largely make up the student population in Tamil schools.&nbsp;The PN government should therefore increase the allocation for Tamil schools from RM50 million to RM60 million, instead of finding excuses to slash it.&nbsp;<br \/><br \/>And what was that again: Muhyiddin is the leader for all Malaysians?&nbsp;Well then, he certainly has to walk it like he talks it.&nbsp;<br \/><br \/><strong>Charles Santiago<br \/>MP for Klang<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Statement15th December 2020 \u201cWalk the talk\u201d, \u201cPractise what you preach\u201d, \u201cActions speak louder than words\u201d &#8211; you folks know the meaning, right? Well, the Prime Minister and his government don\u2019t.&nbsp; While Muhyiddin Yassin says the welfare of the Indian community is important, the severe 42% drop in allocation for Tamil schools reveals how the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[458,475],"tags":[1358,1135,212,251,213,1232,1359],"class_list":{"0":"post-42201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-affairs","8":"category-national","9":"tag-b40","10":"tag-budget-2021","11":"tag-charles-santiago","12":"tag-education","13":"tag-indian","14":"tag-poverty","15":"tag-tamil-schools"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dapmalaysia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}