Compiled by NAN HIDAYAT NAN AZMIE, TAN SIN CHOW and R. ARAVINTHAN
THE national Tamil school endowment board has urged the Melaka education department to fill the Tamil schools coordinator post, which has been vacant for six years, Makkal Osai reported.
The board and the Association of Melaka Tamil Schools Board called for immediate action on the matter during a meeting at the Melaka Tamilar Sangam office last week.
The board’s chairman, Datuk Rajamanikam Karuppiah, said the state department’s lackadaisical attitude in this matter was unacceptable. The assistant director for Tamil schools position, as it is now known, has been part of the education machinery since 1939 in Kedah, with other states following suit.
Penang, Perak, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Negri Sembilan, Johor and Pahang have also appointed suitable candidates for the position all these years.
Rajamanikam questioned why the post in Melaka had been vacant since 2020.
He said it had caused serious concerns within the Indian community and the Tamil education community.
The Education Ministry and state education department, he added, must act immediately to resolve the matter.
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.
