Crumbling classrooms raise concern


Compiled by DIYANA PFORDTEN, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN

PUPILS of SJK(T) Ladang Kerling have been forced to attend classes sitting on the floor in a dingy room with a termite-damaged roof at a nearby national school, Malaysia Nanban reported.

School board chairman M. Kumaran said the Public Works Department had stopped buses from using the road leading to the school as it is badly damaged.

He said the Selangor education department allowed them to use rooms at a nearby school until the road was fixed, but no effort was made to prepare them.

> Goa’s chief minister had to step in after doctors threatened a strike over Health Minister Vish­wajit Rane publicly scolding and threatening a doctor with suspension, Makkal Osai reported.

A viral video of the incident sparked public backlash, prompting Vish­wajit to apologise, saying he acted out of emotion.

The Goa Association of Resident Doctors rejected the apology and warned of a strike unless a sincere one was made. Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant vowed to review the doctors’ demands.

The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a, it denotes a separate news item.

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