Jaspal said that only 1,142 places were given to Indian students in 2013 for matriculation, still falling way below the 1,500 mark promised by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak last March year.
"The 1,500 number was not met last year. We were given the excuse that it was the first year of the programme. This year, this number was again not met!" said Jaspal in a statement today.
"The devil is in the details and the Education Ministry would fall down on what seemed to be the most simplest of implementations," he added.
Jaspal proposed that the quota system be reintroduced for intake in public universities, saying that the current system was not transparent.
"This is because the current ill-named system of meritocracy is un-transparent. It is broke. No one understands how places are allocated under it," he added.
He said that only 442 of the 51,673 students who sat for the STPM examinations obtained a 4.0 CGPA and that special effort must be put in to retain these students in Malaysia, rather than to waste money luring them back later.
"What then is the use of Talent Corp spending RM65 million to bring back talented Malaysians? We must resolve this issue," he said.
Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, who is also the Education Minister, earlier claimed in Parliament that the government never cheated the people and that the 1,500 matriculation seats for Indian students were fulfilled last year and this year.
He said this in a parliamentary reply to a question posted by DAP's Ipoh Barat MP M Kulasegaran on June 27.
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