Call on the Indian community to voice their support for the struggle to keep Seaport Tamil primary school at its original site.
Press Conference Comments by M
Kula Segaran, DAP National Vice Chairman and MP for Ipoh Barat during visit to
the original site of Seaport Tamil primary school on Tuesday, January 21,
2014
Call on the Indian
community to voice their support for the struggle to keep Seaport Tamil primary
school at its original site.
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| Volunteer HM MUregan, Kannan, myself and volunteer teacher Segar |
I am here to express
my support for parents who are fighting to retain Seaport Tamil primary school
at the original site.
To my shock the
present school was itself relocated some 30years ago due to development.
Now why has this school has to move again?
Tamil schools are
becoming an "endangered species". I am pleased to note as to date
there are 27 students from its original figure last year which was 115
students.
It is obvious that
the Selangor Education Department has not learned from the Save SJKC Damansara
campaign launched in 2001.
The campaign to preserve
the original SJKC Damansara school and for the new Damansara school at
Tropicana was successful as the campaign won the support of the people.
One would have
thought that after the issue, the Selangor Education Department would have
understood the need to adopt a community friendly education policy.
Sadly and
unfortunately, the Department has not adopted such a policy.
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| Discussing the land issue with parents |
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| More discussions |
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| Seaport school |
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| School compound |
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| support from Dong Zong |
Last week, MIC
President Datuk Palanivel said that Tamil schools with low enrolment would not
be closed down and such schools would instead be relocated to areas with a
higher density of the Indian population.
While his remarks are
welcomed, they did not address the issue of the relocation of the 80 year old
Seaport Tamil primary school relocation controversy.
Is Palanivel following
the example of the Prime Minister?
While the Prime
Minister has remained silent after Jais ‘s carried road on Bible Society of
Malaysia in total disregard of the Cabinet’s 10 point solution, Palanivel has
also not shown the leadership and courage to help resolve the Seaport Tamil
school relocation issue.
Since Selangor
government which owns the land through the Selangor State Development
Corporation (PKNS) may be considering to gazette the land at the original site
for the school, what is so difficult for Palanivel to tell and convince the
Cabinet that the relocation controversy can be easily resolved by a win win
formula - to keep the Seaport Tamil school at its original site and allowing
the new building at Kampung Lindungan to be opened as an additional school.
I therefore repeat my
last week’s call on Palanivel to raise the issue in the Cabinet and propose the
win win formula.
I also wish to call
on the Selangor state government to immediately and formally gazette the land
for use by Seaport Tamil school.
If the BN government
is not prepared to adopt the win win formula, I call on the Indian community to
support the struggle to retain the original Seaport Tamil school.
If the Save SJKC
Damansara Campaign could succeed with the support from the people, the efforts
to retain Seaport Tamil school at its original site too can succeed with public
support .
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