December 30, 2008

Some Tamil schools making admissions difficult

THE Malaysian Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) has received complaints that some Tamil schools are asking for parents’ marriage certificates and identity cards before their children are admitted to the school
Its commissioner Datuk N. Siva Subramaniam said only children’s birth certificates need to be produced as they had all the necessary information to admit a child in school.
parents whose children had been denied entry into schools to forward their complaints to Suhakam.
> Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s department Datuk S. K. Devamany said MIC and Permodalan Nasional Berhad had held three meetings to discuss raising the equity of Indians to 1.5% by 2010, reported Malaysia Nanban.
He said the meetings focused on guidelines and Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak would make an announcement on the matter soon.

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