The Star
BUTTERWORTH: Seven-year-old M. Pravin Raj’s face lights up each time he talks about going to school.
The bubbly boy is keen to become a policeman when he grows up as he wants to “put the bad guys away”.
However, he has no birth certificate which means he is unable to register for school.
“My kindergarten friends have all entered Year One in January. I am just staying at home, looking through my old kindergarten books,” he said at state MIC chairman Datuk P.K. Subbaiyah’s office in Bagan Ajam here.
Pravin is among the 223 Indians in Penang who submitted applications for birth certificates during the recent MyDaftar exercise initiated by the Special Implementation Taskforce under the Cabinet Committee on the Indian Community.
His father M. Muniandy, 48, a van driver, said he could not apply for the birth certificate because a private maternity centre was holding back the confirmation letter of his son’s birth until he settled his wife’s RM4,000 medical bill.
Without the confirmation letter, he said the National Registration Department could not issue the birth certificate.
His wife, G. Mekala, 38, underwent surgery at the maternity centre in Kulim, following complications while giving birth to Pravin.
“She was admitted for only 12 hours as I later transferred her to the Kulim Hospital. I was worried about a high medical bill,” he said.
He said the doctor, who insisted that he settled the bill in full, recently demanded RM8,000 which supposedly included late charges.
Muniandy, who has two other children, aged 10 months and three, is the family’s breadwinner, earning RM850 a month.
Subbaiyah, who is the Penang-level MyDaftar campaign co-ordinator, said 118 MyKad applications and 625 citizenship applications were received during the campaign.
He said the campaign, which ran from Feb 19 to 26, had been extended till Thursday.
For details, contact Muniswaran Rajoo at 016-458 0750.
BUTTERWORTH: Seven-year-old M. Pravin Raj’s face lights up each time he talks about going to school.
The bubbly boy is keen to become a policeman when he grows up as he wants to “put the bad guys away”.
However, he has no birth certificate which means he is unable to register for school.
“My kindergarten friends have all entered Year One in January. I am just staying at home, looking through my old kindergarten books,” he said at state MIC chairman Datuk P.K. Subbaiyah’s office in Bagan Ajam here.
Pravin is among the 223 Indians in Penang who submitted applications for birth certificates during the recent MyDaftar exercise initiated by the Special Implementation Taskforce under the Cabinet Committee on the Indian Community.
His father M. Muniandy, 48, a van driver, said he could not apply for the birth certificate because a private maternity centre was holding back the confirmation letter of his son’s birth until he settled his wife’s RM4,000 medical bill.
Without the confirmation letter, he said the National Registration Department could not issue the birth certificate.
His wife, G. Mekala, 38, underwent surgery at the maternity centre in Kulim, following complications while giving birth to Pravin.
“She was admitted for only 12 hours as I later transferred her to the Kulim Hospital. I was worried about a high medical bill,” he said.
He said the doctor, who insisted that he settled the bill in full, recently demanded RM8,000 which supposedly included late charges.
Muniandy, who has two other children, aged 10 months and three, is the family’s breadwinner, earning RM850 a month.
Subbaiyah, who is the Penang-level MyDaftar campaign co-ordinator, said 118 MyKad applications and 625 citizenship applications were received during the campaign.
He said the campaign, which ran from Feb 19 to 26, had been extended till Thursday.
For details, contact Muniswaran Rajoo at 016-458 0750.
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