UMNO: Make public JPN, Petronas, TNB, MARA, Telekom, all state Yayasan scholarships

We note that RM 2.8 Billion is allocated for the 2010 National Budget for students assistance scholarships but only an estimated 1% may reach the Indian students. Most of the funds go for scholarships to Malay Muslim Students. 1,266,671 students have benefited from the government PTPTN (Government Higher Education Loan Fund) study loans till 2009. 147,441 such loans were approved at RM 17.0 billion (UM (UMNO) 25/3/08 at page 31).

But thousands of private Indian medical students studying in Russia, Ukraine, Romania, India and Indonesia have been denied these loans. Similarly Indian students studying at private Universities and Institutions of Higher Learning have also been denied these study loans.

We welcome the UMNO led Malaysian government in releasing the name list of 30 receipients of the government Biasiswa National scholarships (The Star 1/04/2010 at front page and N10). On a similar note the UMNO led Malaysian government must similarly forthwith make public the full list of receipients according to ethnicities, merits, the grades scored and from which institution of JPN, Petronas, TNB, MARA, Telekom, all state government Yayasan scholarships and PTPTN loans, etc. If not in the newspapers the same should be published in their respective websites and the website of the Prime Minister’s Department within one week of the offer of scholarship letters. We demands transparency. Some thing the PR Indian mandores have never asked for in Parliament.

Then and only then will there be Prime Minister Najib Razak’s One Malaysia.

P. Uthayakumar.