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ABOVE: A typical primary school, whose plans are standard and Samy Vellu can just snap his fiingers and have them ready for submission to the relevant authorities

ABOVE & BELOW: The construction can be completed within a year in most cases

see Update below Sep 26 06 for SAMY VELLU's Response to LIM KIT SIANG's Challenge

Was there any announcement the RM100 million was allocated for the building of new schools nationwide or was it an afterthought? As the works minister, Datuk Samy is privy to a great deal of information than Housing Minster Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting & others who keep quiet and in the dark on everything.

And how many is MCA planning to build or is totally unaware of the RM100 allocation? It looks like this is an ad hoc arrangement to solve the shortage of Tamil and Chinese Primary Schools.

According to DAP’s statistics; 50 years ago there were 310,000 students in 1,333 Chinese primary schools. Now enrolment in Chinese primary schools has more than doubled to 636,124. There should be a doubling of the number of Chinese primary schools. Instead, there was a decrease of 45 schools from 1,333 to 1,288 Chinese primary schools in the past 50 years. This is a grave injustice and the allocation of RM100 is definitely insufficient with MIC taking away 10%, how many is left for the Chinese schools

Datuk Samy mentioned that a similar situation occurred in the 8MP and yet new schools were built and upgraded. This was challenged by the Opposition leader Lim Kit Siang
See his Blog

Update: 26 Sept 06; Extract from BERNAMA; September 26, 2006 15:44 PM

Samy Vellu said he would not hand over the list of 21 new Tamil schools which were built last year to Opposition leader Lim Kit Siang.

Lim yesterday, through a statement, wanted the Works Minister to name all 21 Tamil schools constructed last year, after Samy Vellu announced that the government had constructed 21 Tamil schools nationwide last year.

"There are new schools. When people relocate, we have to build a new school. Although it is replacing an older school, it is still a new school. We have more than 500 Tamil schools in the country and out of these more than 100 schools need to be rebuilt. When we rebuild, they become new schools.

"He (Lim) is trying to poke to get more information he could harp on unnecessarily. Why should I give him the list of new schools...let him go find it himself. I will release the list to the media in two or three days but I am not going to present the list to him," Samy Vellu said

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Datuk Seri S Samy Vellu, the Mr Fix-It Minister is privy to a great deal of info and is the Front man to 'explain' away any deleicate situation the government is facing.. He can announced that "Sungai Damansara" has got the approval to be deepened when there was last a "flash flood" and this funding for Tamil & Chinese Schools out of the 9MP is another of his effort to "save face" for a breach of promise by PM Abdullah.

Datuk Seri S Samy Vellu; the Works Minister announced on Sunday that the government would continue funding Tamil & Chinese schools even the projects do not come under the 9 Malaysia Plan. MIC will propose to the government to build 14 new Tamil Schools costing between RM10 -12 million.

He was commenting on Deputy Education Minister, Datuk Noh Omar reply in Parliament recently that the government would not build any vernacular schools under the 9^th MP. He said even in the 8^th MP there was no mention of construction of vernacular schools. In the end we managed to build 21 new Tamil schools and upgraded 64 existing schools.
Perhaps Datuk Noh has yet to look at the list of schools to be build as the MIC has been dealing with the Education Minister Hishamuddin on the matter

According to Samy Vellu six months ago the government allocated RM100 million for new schools nationwide and the funds for the 14 Tamils schools will come from this allocation. The new schools will be built in Kedah, Perak, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan and Johor.

He added the government has approved the construction two schools SJK (Tamil) San Peng and SJK (Tamil) Sentul and the PWD would be submitting plans to the relevant authorities.

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DJZ: Gov't breaks promise on vernacular schools; Sep 22, 06 7:53pm

The government has allegedly broken its promise by pulling the plug on the construction of new Chinese and Tamil primary schools under the Ninth Malaysia Plan (9MP).

Another broken promise

According to Chinese education movement Dong Jiao Zong (DJZ), Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (ABOVE) had promised to build more vernacular schools.

However, Deputy Education Minister Noh Omar revealed two days ago that under the 9MP there would be no more new vernacular schools.

Expressing disappointment with this, DJZ urged Barisan Nasional's Chinese-based parties such as MCA, Gerakan and Sabah's Supp and LDP to clear the air on this issue.

DJZ said the government should understand the people's need for education and provide fair treatment to all schools.

"Based on the funds allocated by the government, it is obvious that they have placed more emphasis on SK (national schools) and have marginalised SJK (vernacular schools)," the movement said in a statement.

Meeting the demand

From 1970 to 2006, it is estimated that the country saw an increase of 2,900 national schools. During the same period, a total of 193 vernacular schools - 58 Chinese schools and 134 Tamil schools - closed down.

According to DJZ, there is a demand for 134 Chinese schools nationwide at present.

"If the government only builds five or so Chinese schools every four years once when an election comes, then it will take 188 years or 47 elections before the 134 schools will be completed

"But by then, the population will increase and more schools would be needed," said the movement.

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