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Universiti Malaya’s Indian Studies Department to remain

September 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Putrajaya, Sep 3 (ANI): The Malaysian Cabinet has decided that the Indian Studies Department of Universiti Malaya will remain and to be headed by a qualified Malaysian of Indian origin.

Human Resources Minister Dr S. Subramaniam said the Cabinet was against the decision to change the name of the department when it was brought up for discussion on Wednesday.

Dr Subramaniam, the sole Indian representative in the Cabinet, had raised the matter as the Malaysian Indian Congress and several Indian non-governmental organisations were against the name change.

“The Cabinet has also directed the Higher Education Ministry to ensure that an eligible Malaysian Indian heads the department,” he told reporters after meeting the ministry’s training providers here,” The Star quoted him, as saying.

Dr Subramaniam hoped this would put an end to speculations on the status of the department and who would head it.

There were reports that Universiti Malaya had wanted to change the department’s name to the “Indian and South Asian Studies Department”.

“I hope the Cabinet’s decision today would put an end to all sorts of speculation on the status of the department. Too many things have been said and enough is enough,” Dr Subramaniam said.

He added that the Cabinet had also discussed about the Hari Raya bonus payment for civil servants but had yet to make a stand on it. (ANI)

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MIC urges Universiti Malaya to maintain its Indian Studies dept’s name

August 29, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 29 (ANI): Malaysian Indian Congress chief S. Samy Vellu has urged Universiti Malaya’s vice-chancellor Ghauth Jasmon not to change the name of university’s Indian Studies Department.

“He has to listen to the views of the Indian community. Tamil is our life,” he said when asked to comment on Ghauth’s statement over renaming the department to Indian and South Asian Studies department.
Ghauth had reportedly said that although the name of the department would be changed, its programmes would be maintained.
“We will not accept any changes to the Indian Studies Department because it was the Indians who contributed to the department’s existence and it is also our pride,” the New Strait Times quoted Samy Vellu, as saying.
He said he was informed by Human Resources Minister Dr. S. Subramaniam that the cabinet has agreed to maintain the during a recent Cabinet meeting.
“It has been agreed by the Cabinet. So, there must not be any change in the name,” Samy Vellu said.
He noted that the ISD was created from money collected from Indian estate workers in the early 1950s under the “Save Tamil Fund.”
“The department has many historical values for the Indian community. Changing its name would mean showing disrespect to the Indian community,” he added. (ANI)

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MIC to fight for inclusion of Tamil language and literature subjects in curriculum

June 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Kuala Lumpur, June 19 (ANI): In a bid to enable Malay Tamil students to take Tamil language and literature subjects, the Malaysian Indian Congress has said it wants to extend the 10-subject limit for SPM students to 11 subjects by 2010.

“We have received feedback from students, and their parents, who are worried about not being able to take the two subjects due to the limit,” The Star quoted MIC President S. Samy Vellu, as saying.

Samy Vellu added that the Human Resources Minister Dr S. Subramaniam, who is also party secretary-general, would raise this issue in the Cabinet.

On Wednesday, Malaysia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, said SPM students would be allowed to take a maximum of 10 subjects from 2010.

Speaking about the MIC deputy presidential contest, Samy Vellu said any of the party’s leaders, including those in government positions, could contest for the position.

He indicated that deputy minister M. Saravanan and S.K. Devamany would be allowed to contest for the post.

According to sources, Samy Vellu said he still had not decided whom to back for the post. (ANI)

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Malay Indians eligible for JPA scholarships

March 23, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Kuala Lumpur, Mar 23 (ANI): Malaysia’s Human Resources Minister Dr S. Subramaniam said that about 7.4 percent of the Indian population were eligible for JPA scholarships this year.

He said the government scholarships would be given to students with outstanding SPM results and after taking into consideration their family backgrounds.

Dr Subramanian was speaking to reporters after closing the MIC Youth’s Educational Bureau’s motivational seminar in Shah Alam.

He said, with the scholarship, the selected students could pursue their studies overseas, The Star reported.

Dr Subramaniam said the MIC had raised the issue of many outstanding Indian students who had failed to get JPA scholarships last year with the Cabinet. (ANI)

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Hindu priests from India ‘graduate’ in Malasiya

February 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Kuala Lumpur, Feb 19 (ANI): The first batch of 63 Hindu priests, musicians and sculptors from India have “graduated” from the Human Resources Institute in Malasiya.

The group, comprising 22 priests, 22 musicians and 19 sculptors, and representing 31 temples across India underwent a one-day induction course.he group was the first in Malaysia to receive such a certificate.

Human Resources Minister Dr S. Subramaniam said the induction programme, a condition imposed by the Immigration Department after a cabinet decision, was to familiarise them with the workplace, local culture and laws.

“The course was conducted by religious and labour experts from the Malaysian Hindu Sangam and the Immigration Department in line with the Cabinet decision last July allowing the recruitment of Hindu priests, musicians and sculptors from India,” he added.

Dr Subramaniam brought up the issue in the cabinet following an outcry from the MIC, temples and the Malaysian Hindu Sangam. He said the cabinet also wanted Malaysians to be trained as priests.

The Cabinet allowed the recruiting of new priests but imposed conditions, including the need for them to undergo an induction course.

There was a shortage of Hindu priests after the Government, in late 2007, decided to freeze the recruitment of new priests from India, NST reported. (ANI)

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Malaysia to recruit more Indians-origin civil servants

February 15, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 14 (ANI): Malaysia’s Human Resources Minister Dr. S. Subramaniam has indicated a major breakthrough in request by the Malaysian Indian Congress to increase non-Malay recruitments in the civil service.

Subramaniam said the matter was decided in a meeting attended by the Chief Secretary to the Government Mohd Sidek Hassan, Public Services Commission (PSC) chairman Jamaluddin Ahmad Damanhuri and Public Services Department Director General Ismail Adam in Putrajaya on Friday.

“A memo (memorandum) will be issued (by the PSC) on the matter soon. Let’s wait for the memo,” the MIC secretary-general Subramaniam said.

The decision will be discussed in a Cabinet Committee meeting for Indian Development scheduled on February 23, which is expected to be chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, The Star quoted him, as saying.

The Malaysian Indian Congress wants an eight percent Indian representation in the civil service.

Earlier, MIC president S. Samy Vellu had observed that the number of Indians civil servants in Malaysia was somewhere between 3.5 per cent to less than five percent.

A news report had claimed that Indians had accounted for only 2.5 per cent out of 486,802 civil services applicants in Malaysia.

However, PSD Director General Ismail had said the situation was difficult to change although the PSD was trying to reduce the gap among the races in the civil service. (ANI)

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