Indian poor denied piped water for 100 years cost only RM 10,000, but UMNO MB Perak refuses to act, previous DAP Perak govt didn’t act or care either!

Some 10 Indian families in Labu Kutchi, Kampar, Perak have been denied even piped water for over the last 100 years. While Malay-sia boasts of the world’s tallest twin towers even RM 10,000 allocation has been denied by the Perak Menteri Besar. Even for this basic necessity the IPF Indian mandores have to beg the UMNO Perak Menteri Besar.
Even the previous DAP, PAS and PKR led Perak State government had refused to address even this very basic necessity during their one over year rule of Perak.
But DAP, PKR and PAS were very quick to within the first month of their rule in Perak perform miracles for the Malays, Chinese and Orang Asli in Perak, and for just about every body other community in Perak except for the Indians.
Utusan Malaysia on 1/1/2009 which reported that “349 Rancangan Perkampungan Tersusun (RPT) and 134 New Villages in Perak with 110,000 and 102,000 (60,000) titles respectively to be given out irrespective of the National Land Councils orders involving almost all Malay and Chinese owners and land recipients. Freehold titles for just RM63.00 for 110,000 planned villages (almost 99% Malay) and 102,000 (60,000) (estimated at almost 99% Chinese) Chinese New Villagers in Perak.
“The value of these properties will then go up and they can apply for bank loans to rebuilt their houses” says Datuk Ngae Koo Ham, the Senior DAP EXCO Member for Perak (NST 10/10/2008 at page 23). The PKR, DAP and PAS Perak State government also allocated 1,000 hectares (about 2,500 acres) of land to nine Chinese schools “for them to generate revenue to pay for their operational expenses” says PAS Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Nizar Jamaluddin (NST 31/8/2008 at page 38). The schools were urged to form a company to work the land and share the profits among themselves.
The Pakatan Rakyat Menteri Besar also donated RM30,000 for each of the nine schools. Even after UMNO/BN taking over power in Perak in February 2009, the new UMNO Menteri Besar Zambry Kadir in about one month’s time confirms “State BN to carry on with (permanent) land title plan to the said 132 Chinese New Villages and in the 349 (Malay) planned villages (NST 7/3/2009) and “The BN Government in Perak will give due consideration to the 1,000 hectre piece of land meant to help the nine Chinese independent schools in the state to be financially self reliant, said BN Menteri Besar Zambry after flagging off a cross country run involving representatives of the independent Chinese schools (The Star 8/3/2009).
The Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Zambry Kadir said a solution would be worked out to safeguard the interests of the orang asli community and customary rights to their ancestral land. It is a state priority. (NST 9/3/2009 at page 8).
But what about land for the landless indians, Tamil schools, Hindu temples and crematoriums? Why is this not a state priority by both UMNO and PR? Because we are Indians?
This the clearest ever and latest example of how both UMNO/BN and PAS, PKR, DAP/PR does not care for the Indians. It is race discrimination!
Then the 3.3 hectares of land for every orang asli family was approved. 18,000 hectares of forest land have been gazetted as orang asli reserve and another 30,000 hectares more are waiting to be gazetted, says Perak Senior EXCO Member Datuk Ngae Koo Ham (NST 20/9/2008 at page 20).
The PR Perak State government then again granted a 99 year lease for 101 hectares of land to the proposed RM450 Million and private profit motivated Premier International University and with the possibility of an additional 20 hectares (NST 18/9/2008 at page 20).
But 110 out of 138 or about 80% of the Tamil schools in Perak are still not fully aided because the land these schools are sitting on does not belong to these schools and on this grounds the UMNO Federal government has refused to grant full financial assistance to these schools. (UM 3/9/2008 at page 27). http://www.humanrightspartymalaysia.com/books/TheWayForwardEnglishversion.pdf
Malaysian Indian Political Empowerment Strategy – The Way Forward (By P.Uthayakumar).
Even private entities are granted land for their business but not for Indian public purposes!
Will PR make the difference vis a vis the Indian poor when they accent to Putrajaya?
When raise these height of racism and injustice we in turn are branded as racist and ethnocentric even by the PKR Supremo.
P. Uthayakumar
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