KUALA LUMPUR: A total of RM270mil have been allocated to 370 Tamil schools which are government-aided schools, said Deputy Education Minister Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong.
Of the figure, RM100mil was a supplementary allocation announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak when tabling the 2012 Budget, and would be disbursed beginning next month.
He said that since Najib became Prime Minister, and led Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, four major allocations had been channelled to the schools.
"Based on average calculation, each school receives RM729,000 for development only," he told Dr Siti Mariah Mahmud (PAS-Kota Raja) in Parliament.
On the conversion of the status of 370 of such schools to national schools, Wee said it depended on the choice of the schools concerned and the ministry could not exert any pressure. BERNAMA
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