KUALA LUMPUR: Only four out of the 28 Indian students who qualified for an education loan had accepted the Selangor government's offer of aid this year.
Expressing his shock, Selangor MIC Youth secretary C Sivarraajh said that it did not make sense that 24 students who were among 53 applicants for study loans had rejected the offer of a loan.
"I find this hard to believe... How come only four students accepted the state government loans... what is happening?
"Why are the students rejecting the offer? If they had applied (for loan) in the first place, it does not make sense that 24 students should reject the offer," he said.
Sivarraajh urged the Indian leaders in Pakatan Rakyat to come clean on why the Selangor government has sidelined Indian community in education.
He said that the number of Indian students who applied for education loans from the state government for 2010 had dropped drastically compared with last year.
This year, 53 students had applied for study loans and only 28 were offered loans. Of this, four students accepted the aid.
In contrast last year, Selangor recieved 110 applications. Of this, 58 were offered loans and 37 accepted it.
He also raised the issue of why the state had not offered again the rejected loans to those who had not been shortlisted.
"If the students did not want the loan, why didn't the state government offer the loan again to others who had applied but did not qualify?
"I want to know what has happened to the funds for the rest of the 24 loans," he asked.
Accusing the state government of practising racial politics, he said although they had given loans to more than 1,000 students in the state, it was done on a quota basis unlike during the Barisan Nasional regime.
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