UMNO Policy – 55% of Tamil schools to be wiped out and ‘ethnically cleansed’, refuses to build Tamil schools in Indian neighbourhoods and lets former plantation Tamil schools die natural death

UMNO Policy – 55% of Tamil schools to be wiped out and ‘ethnically cleansed’, refuses to build Tamil schools in Indian neighbourhoods and lets former plantation Tamil schools die natural death

This has been UMNOs’ unwritten policy has been ably implemented largely by it’s 1,016,799 Biro Tata Negara racist “graduates” who are about 97% malay muslim civil servants. The policy is to ‘cap and roll back’ vernacular schools.

In any country in the world especially primary school education is compulsory. In Malaysia, by the Child Act, a parent can be imprisoned for up to six months if they do not send their children to primary school.

Poor Indian neighbourhoods like Kg Lindungan, Klang and Kapar for instance, have been appealing (begging) for a local Tamil school in their neighbourhoods but UMNO plays dumb. Poor Indians cannot even afford to pay the RM50 bus fare to go to the nearest schools, so the need for a local Tamil school (Malaysiakini.com 26/3/09).

289 or about 55.26% of the Malaysia’s 523 Tamil schools are in the plantations which are hardly inhabited by Indians any more. Going by this UMNOs’ racist policies, about 55% of the Tamil schools would be wiped out, “ethnically cleansed” in the near future.

UMNO through their mandore MIC party creates an illusion that they are trying to transfer the “licenses” of these low enrolment Tamil schools to Indian neighbourhoods. But there is no such rule or law. It is as simple as the UMNO government building a Tamil school on a needs basis and not racist basis.

Article 12 of the Federal Constitution provides that “Rights in respect in education: (1) Without prejudice to the generality of Article 8, there shall be no discrimination against any citizen on the grounds only of religion, race, descent or place of birth – (a) in the administration of any educational institution maintained by a public authority, and, in particular, the admission of pupils or students or the payment of fees, or (b) in providing out of the funds of a public authority financial aid for the maintenance or education of pupils or students in any educational institution (whether or not maintained by a public authority and whether within or outside the Federation).

Conclusion

The net effect of this UMNO’s racist policy is that some 55% of the total of 110,000 Tamil school pupils, ie., some 60,500 Tamil school pupils are made to cramp up in the 45% sub-urban and urban Tamil schools which itself only has the barest minimum of six classrooms, ie., one classroom for each standard. Thus the cramped up studying conditions in Tamil schools, and as usual another temporary solution, ie., claustrophobic steel cabins are donated by these UMNO and MIC mandores. Why not a permanent solution, a permanent block of bigger and larger and additional six classrooms to ease the present congestion and for the future expansion?

P.Uthayakumar