PENANG: There is no political agenda behind the state government’s programme to give 223 Tamil school pupils free spectacles worth RM9,000, as this was approved during the previous administration.
Deputy Chief Minister II Dr P. Ramasamy, who heads the education portfolio, told a press conference yesterday that the programme was initiated when Gerakan’s former state executive councillor Datuk Dr Toh Kin Woon was in charge of education.
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