KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 14 — There appears to be a major breakthrough in the request for an increase in non-Malay recruitment in the civil service, according to Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam.
Without revealing details of the decision, he said the matter was decided at a meeting which he attended with Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan, Public Services Commission chairman Tan Sri Jamaluddin Ahmad Damanhuri and Public Services Department director-general Tan Sri Ismail Adam in Putrajaya yesterday.
“A memo (memorandum) will be issued (by the PSC) on the matter soon. Let’s wait for the memo,” the MIC secretary-general said in a statement today.
Subramaniam said he expected the decision to be discussed at the Feb 23 Cabinet Committee for Indian Development meeting to be chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
The MIC wants an eight per cent Indian representation in the civil service.
Recently, party president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu had noted that the number of Indians hired as civil servants fluctuated between 3.5 per cent and less than five per cent annually.
He was also puzzled over a news report last December, which stated that non-Malays, especially Indians, were not interested in government jobs.
The report claimed that of the 486,802 applications to work in the civil service in 2007, Chinese and Indians only accounted for 1.78 per cent and 2.5 per cent, respectively.
It had quoted Ismail as saying that the situation was difficult to change although the PSD was trying to reduce the gap among the races in the civil service. — Bernama
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