Just in today’s Malaysia Nanban, 5/3/10, at page 16, alone report on four instances of Indians begging for even the basic necessities of life.
PKR and UMNO leaders play “school bag” politics and giving out wheel chairs. (Not that this is not important.) We hardly read about the Chinese and Malay school children being given school bags. But for this Indian minority, children in Malay-sia, this schoolbag donation only reflects their height of poverty.
The government has allocated RM 48 Million for welfare programs including providing assistance and house rental payments (NST 24/10/2009 at page 10). But most of the poor Indians residents of PPR Subang flats had their welfare help rejected at the counter level, given the run around, and at last are given a pittance of RM 95 per month where the poverty line index is RM687.00. (The Star 24/20/2009 at page N6). Or even this pittance of RM95.00 is terminated after just a few months.
These poor people have been burdened with the rental increment from RM124 to RM 250 after Pakatan took over Selangor state. And they are struggling to get back the RM 126 that they are paying extra from earlier rental payment. If they can’t afford, why do these people have to struggle for RM126. And some of them cannot even afford to pay the rental and their house debts has reached over thousand ringgit. So these people are to become homeless at any time.
HRP note: Helping the poor is the duty of the government. Giving out school bags and wheel chairs is the tip of iceberg and should not be highlighted in the newspapers, as if a great deal has been accomplished. They do not deserve congratulations for doing their duty for which they were elected. They can only be congratulated when the minimum is done, that is, land is allocated to the school. PKR and UMNO leaders are doing Wayang Kulit by playing school bag politics.
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