PKR’s  RM100.00 per month peanuts for childrens’ bus fare! Where is PKR, DAP and PAS’ serious plan to alleviate Indian poverty in Selangor, Kedah & Penang?

 Yet again this Selangor PKR Indian EXCO mandore does MIC mandore style Tamil paper politics by dishing out peanuts of RM100.00 per month for bus fare to 30 poor Indian families in Klang and the sub headlines reading – “Xavier wipes out tears of 30 Indian single parents”.

 This desperate poor Indians not having money for their childrens’ bus fare is the height of poverty in Malaysia.

 Why is it that we do not read of Malays, Chinese, Orang asli, Kadazan or Ibans who cannot afford to pay their childrens’ RM100.00 per month bus fare? Because the school is built within walking distance to their homes, or their level of being poor is not at this level suffered by the Indians. But of course PKR, DAP, PAS’ Indian mandores and Steven Gan’s Malaysiakini.com would take the position that as much as there are poor Indians, there are also poor Malays, poor Chinese and poor natives.

 Having given up on UMNO we gave political directions to the Indians not to vote for UMNO/BN but to vote for PKR, DAP and PAS.

 So we now ask PKR, DAP and PAS why they have not come up with specific plans to help alleviate poverty among the Indians in Selangor, Penang and Kedah for example Felda like ten acre land ownership schemes, land for goat and cow farming, etc. Especially so when they have already been in power for two years now and only have two more years to go before the next general elections.

 S.Jayathas

(Sinar 11/3/2010 at page S6)

The RM 48 million allocation (The Star & NST Headlines 24/10/09) for providing welfare assistance and house rental payments does not reach this Indian family.

The sole bread winner who is also a heart patient earns RM 1,000.00 but has eight mouths to feed. This family even has difficulty in paying their electricity bills. Three of their children have been denied birth certificates as he could not even afford to pay the compound of RM 50.00 because of late registration.

 This is the real height of poverty.

P. Uthayakumar

UMNO denied wheelchair to Nagendran till 2010 because he did not fill up forms in 1995 and 1996

The UMNO welfare department now says that Nagendran had never applied for a wheelchair. Why is it that this kind of wheelchair problem is unheard of happening to malay muslims.

Judge for your goodselves the extent of UMNO’s racism which is implemented by the 1,016,799 Biro Tata Negara “racist graduates” (UM (B) 21/6/09 page 19) in almost all levels of the government departments.

The odd Nagendran’s case was luckily highlighted in the Malay Press. Thousands of others Indians are not so lucky and end up suffering in silence on a day to day basis. Perhaps because some forms were not filled!

P. Uthayakumar

Indian divorce, teenage runaway, premarital pregnancies young single mothers rise – poverty related

Because of poverty, both Indian parents, one an odd job worker who turned drunkard and his wife a cleaner, both earning between RM400.00 to RM600.00 have to go to work to keep the family afloat. They live in a squatter settlement in Pantai Dalam, KL when both parents are at work they have no control over their teenage daughters.

The elder girl was told to leave the Brickfields Vivekananda secondary school some two years ago when she was only 15 and became pregnant. The father was drunkard Indian national who drops by on and off to visit his child. Two years later history repeats itself when even her younger sister got pregnant and the father “disappearing”. This is based on a real story.

 This is just the tip of the iceberg of this very serious social problem at the ground level arising out of poverty or is poverty related. This critical Indian problem arises out of UMNO excluding this ethnic minority Malaysian Indians from the National mainstream development of Malaysia.

As a result of this even 5,000 Indian kids did not go to school due to poverty and had been denied birth certificates by UMNO.  Only about 39% of Indian children attended kindergarden, says Suhakam Commissioner Siva Subramaniam (The Star 4/9/9 pg N63).

 RM3,000.00 is Poverty Line says F.T.Minister Raja Nong Chik “If you have 3 children and your household income is below RM3,000.00” (The Star 26/10/2010 at page N14). But this family earns 2,000% lesser than the Poverty Line announced by the Federal Territories Minister.

Since the 1970’s Malaysia has reduced poverty, by nearly half the population (49.6%) the incidents of poverty declined from 5.7% in 2004 to 3.6% in 2007 The incidence of urban poverty decreased from 2.5% in 2004 to 2.0% in 2007 while in rural areas, it declined from 11.9% to 7.1%. The target of the 9MP (2006 TO 2010) is to further reduce the incidence of poverty to 2.8% by 2010 and totally eradicate hardcore poor families.

 In 2006 2,136 hardcore poor households in rural areas were provided home reconstruction assistance, which benefited 10,680 household members. In 2007, housing assistance was provided to 1942 hardcore poor households (The Star 10/1/10 at page N14).

 Low income households are those with a total income of less than or equal to RM2,000.00 per month while poor households are those with a total income less than or equal to RM750.00 per month. Extreme poor describes households that have a total income less than or equal to RM440.00 per month. Once the details of the low income households are entered into the e-kasih system welfare authorities will be able to identify and track the aid distribution across the nation.

The processing time for disbursement of aid for first time applicants will also be reduced from two months to seven days Smart Cards and vouchers will be issued to individuals categorised as poor  and extreme poor (The Star 29/1/10 at page N41).

Solution

Why can’t this and hundreds of other poor and underprivileged Indian families be granted the ten acre land ownership schemes in Felda, Felcra, Risda, Fama, Mardi, Kesedar, Ketengah, etc., by both the Federal UMNO government and the three PKR, DAP and PAS ruled states?

After all there are a total of at least 442,000 almost 99.9% poor and landless Malay muslims are given a ten acre land ownership schemes in Felda (112,000 settlers, Risda (235,000 settlers) and Felcra (95,000 participants) (Berita Harian 25/2/2010 at page 4).

 If only these poor and landless Indians are given the opportunity in these land schemes, then the instances of these divorce, teenage runaway brides, premarital pregnancies, and young single mothers could and would be reduced by some 98%.

 This Indian problem is really very serious. An Indian lady delivers by drainside in Brickfields and even cuts the umbilical cord herself.  (The Star 1/1/09 at page N45).

The only way forward as both UMNO and PKR, DAP and PAS have abandoned even the critical Indian problems but are only interested in their votes is as per the Indian Political Empowerment Strategy.  HYPERLINK http://www.humanrightspartymalaysia.com/books/TheWayForwardEnglishversion.pdf.

 P.Uthayakumar

After 53 years Merdeka Indians still begging for basic necessities

 Just in today’s Malaysia Nanban, 5/3/10, at page 16, alone report on four instances of Indians begging for even the basic necessities of life.

PKR and UMNO leaders play “school bag” politics and giving out wheel chairs.  (Not that this is not important.) We hardly read about the Chinese and Malay school children being given school bags. But for this Indian minority, children in Malay-sia, this schoolbag donation only reflects their height of poverty.

The government has allocated RM 48 Million for welfare programs including providing assistance and house rental payments (NST 24/10/2009 at page 10). But most of the poor Indians residents of PPR Subang flats had their welfare help rejected at the counter level, given the run around, and at last are given a pittance of RM 95 per month where the poverty line index is RM687.00. (The Star 24/20/2009 at page N6). Or even this pittance of RM95.00 is terminated after just a few months.

These poor people have been burdened with the rental increment from RM124 to RM 250 after Pakatan took over Selangor state. And they are struggling to get back the RM 126 that they are paying extra from earlier rental payment. If they can’t afford, why do these people have to struggle for RM126. And some of them cannot even afford to pay the rental and their house debts has reached over thousand ringgit. So these people are to become homeless at any time.

HRP note: Helping the poor is the duty of the government. Giving out school bags and wheel chairs is the tip of iceberg and should not be highlighted in the newspapers, as if a great deal has been accomplished. They do not deserve congratulations for doing their duty for which they were elected. They can only be congratulated when the minimum is done, that is, land is allocated to the school. PKR and UMNO leaders are doing Wayang Kulit by playing school bag politics.

UMNO nafikan ibu tunggal wang kebajikan untuk anak kurang upaya.  

 TAIPING, Disember 5 – S. Ponni yang merupakan ibu kepada 4 orang anak sedang meminta bantuan kerajaan untuk membiaya kos perubatan anak bongsunya Tushvananthan (2 tahun) yang kurang upaya dengan sepasang kakinya cacat, mengalami masalah jantung serta usus besarnya tidak berfungsi.

      Sudah setahun suami S. Ponni meninggalkannya dan kini beliau hidup di sebuah rumah sewa dengan kadar bayaran sewa RM150 sebulan bersama empat orang anaknya,  Amsaleka (11 tahun), Jayaganesh (9 tahun), Visvan (8 tahun) serta Tusvananthan (2 tahun). Kaki Tusvananthan yang tidak sama panjangnya menyebabkan Tusvananthan terpaksa mendapatkan rawatan di Hospital Besar Kuala Lumpur dua kali sebulan.

      Bantuan Kebajikan yang diberi oleh Jabatan Kebajikan Daerah sebanyak RM400.00 hanya dapat menampung sewa, tambang bas sekolah, bil air, elektrik serta tepung susu untuk anaknya. Disebabkan oleh kos rawatan dan pengangkutan tidak mencukupi S.Ponni tidak mendapatkan rawatan untuk anaknya sejak 15hb Januari. S.Ponni meminta bantuan supaya diberi kerja yang dapat dibuat dari rumahnya di mana beliau dapat menjaga 4 orang anaknya termasuk anak bongsunya yang amat memerlukannya berada  di sisinya.   
 

UMNO forces Indian orphans to beg for their daily upkeep.

 We were at the Masi Magam Festival in Teluk Bahang, at the last few remaining fishermens’ Hindu temple, the Sri Singamuga Kaliamman Teluk Bahang, Penang, annual festival.

We could not help but notice a few group of poor and underprivileged Malaysian ethnic minority Indian children orphans from Batu Grace Ashram, Kulim, Kedah who were forced to beg for this daily upkeep at their orphanages. We have earlier noticed them at other major such Hindu festivals, on the streets, offices, homes, Indian shopping areas, etc.

But we do not see this happening to Malay muslim and Chinese children.

Why? Because the UMNO controlled Malay-sian government and their financially powerful banking, business and cooperate companies takes care of the Malay muslim orphans. Similarly the Chinese powerful business, chambers of commerce, corporate and banking community takes care of the Chinese orphans (if any).

But the Indian orphaned children are left on the streets to beg for their survival. What self esteem, self confidence and motivation will these children grow up with? Compliments to UMNO and Prime Minister Najib Razak’s One Malay-sia.

The duty to care for orphaned children is on the government of the day. This is the norm in any part of the world except in One-Malaysia where UMNO pushes the buck on the pre existing poor and under privileged Indian community with no or very little financial support from the Indian and also non Indian corporate, Banking or business community unlike the Malay and Chinese orphaned children.

 P.Uthayakumar

UMNO: Sivasangkari merana penyakit barah otak 

      Sivasangkari, 11 tahun, menghidapi penyakit barah otak dan kini merana kerana memerlukan belanja perubatan. Dia yang tinggal bersama keluarganya di Tanjung Karang amat memerlukan pertolongan dari segi kewangan bagi membiaya perubatannya. Orang awam yang ingin membantu diminta memasukkan wang ke dalam akaun Agro Bank keluarganya. (Makkal Osai 2/3/2010 di muka surat 12).  Terdapat satu lagi kisah dimana seorang ibu miskin berusaha menyelamatkan suami yang terlantar di katil kerana tidak sihat serta lima orang anaknya.  (Malaysia Nanban 25/2/2010 di muka surat 18).

HRP: Kenapa Jabatan Kebajikan di bawah pimpinan UMNO enggan memberi bantuan tambahan sebanyak RM500 kepada keluarga ini sebagai bantuan kebajikan dan memberi tanah di bawah program Felda, Felcra, Risda, Fama, Agropolitan, Kejora, Kesedar dan lain-lain lagi dan memberi peluang supaya keluarga ini dapat mengatasi kemiskinan hidup yang telah diwujudkan oleh sikap berat sebelah UMNO. Walaupun kerajaan di bawah  pimpinan UMNO telah memperuntukkan RM48 Million (surat kepada Perdana Menteri bertarikh 27hb Mac 2009) untuk bantuan kebajikan namun ia tetap tidak sampai kepada masyarakat India di negara ini yang amat memrlukannya dan kisah Sivasangkari adalah salah satu bukti yang tidak dapat dinafikan.