Straight As’ Indian students given zero places in Matriculation Colleges however deserving they are.

Straight As’ Indian students given zero places in Matriculation Colleges however deserving they are.
There are 40,000 places in the nine matriculation colleges nationwide (UM 2/11/08 at page 4) plus the MARA Kulim and Kuala Nerang which also provides matriculation courses and the three technical matriculation colleges. 70% of these matriculation students undergo a mere one year foundation courses in critical fields like Law, Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy etc to get into the Institutions of Higher Learning (UM Headlines 6/4/2010).
We estimate that a mere 0.1% of these places are given to the Indians however deserving they are.
In addition to this, 6,000 places per semester is made available to Malay Muslim students in UiTM who had failed to secure places in these matriculation courses (UM 30/4/2010 at page 28).
Indians students are excluded completely from the 200,000 places in UiTM which only admits the Malay Muslim students (Utusan Malaysia 1/1/09). About 10% of the intake every year into UiTM are foreign students who come from Muslim countries – ironically.
In The Star today (30/4/2010 at page N57) reported quoting Buntong Assemblyman that “a limited number of Indian students were given the opportunity but this year, none was given the chance to pursue the classes.”
This UMNO racist religious extremist and supremacist policies are in direct contravention of Article 7 of the Federal Constitution which provides for Equality for all citizens irrespective of their ethnicity and Article 12 of the Federal Constitution which specifically stipulates that there shall be no discrimination in an educational institution which receives government fund.
But UMNO does not follow even the highest law of the land. In fact UMNO blatantly violates these laws with impunity.
How then are the 70% of the Indians who are poor or in the lower income group going to come out from their cycle of poverty when they are denied equal opportunities in the field of education.
This UMNOs’ racist, religious extremist and supremacist policies must be forthwith ended.
P. Uthayakumar