In any country the government is the biggest spender. Every year the UMNO led Malaysian government dishes out hundreds of thousands of government projects and tenders.
But almost all, perhaps to the tune of 99.9% of the Indians are denied government projects and tenders. UMNO grants almost of these projects and contracts to Malays or Chinese backed Malay companies and exclude the Indians from sharing this part of the nation’s wealth however competent or deserving they are.
But the Indians pay the rent seeking Malays and get to do jobs on a sub or sub-sub or sub-sub-sub from the Malay and/or the Malay and Chinese Tuans and Towkays.
We have received complaints that even for an Indah Water Sewerage Treatment Plant, the Indians end up doing the dirty sub contract jobs but the rent seeking Malays sit back in their air conditioned rooms, shake legs and just reap the lucrative “pickings” from what is otherwise a dirty job.
This is just the tip of the iceberg of such of UMNOs’ racist, religious extremist and supremacist policies in the area of awarding government contracts and projects.
UMNOs’ DBKL and Federal Territories Minister says “that not all contracts would go to bumiputras as the contract awarding mechanism should emulate the 1Malaysia concept. (Starmetro 21/2/2010 at page M4).
To start of with 90% of the Alam Flora Workers with DBKL are the Indians. Why can’t this One Malay-sia UMNO at least start of at the very least by awarding the rubbish collection contracts to these their very own poor Indian workers by giving them loans and a crash course. This way we do not even have to “import” millions of foreign workers as the Indians will do this dirty job and reap the fruits of their labour themselves.
A similar initiative could be organised for the poor Indian workers and office maintainance cleaners both in the government and private sectors.
P. Uthayakumar
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