UMNO says poor earning below RM 720 will get RM 400. But poor Indian lady given RM 235 per month for just a few months.

 

The UMNO welfare department announced RM 400 of welfare help for all earning RM 720.00 and below (NST 29/3/09 at page 23).

RM 687 salary per month and below is the poverty line index (The Star 24/10/09 at page N6).

RM 3,000 is the poverty line, ie if you have three children and your household income is below RM 3,000 per month, says the UMNO federal Territories Minister Raja Nong Chik.

RM 478 salary per month and below is considered absolutely poor (NST 3/3/09).

But granting this poor widowed housewife Parameswary with three children a mere RM 235 and which from experience we know would be stopped in a  few months is not the solution.

The solution is granting her the 10 acre land ownership scheme as in Felda, Felcra, Risda, Mardi, Fama, Agropolition, 13 State Land development schemes, etc., as was given to 442,000 malay muslims (BH 25/2/2010 at page 4).

P. Uthayakumar