24 Oct 2011
SIBU: Rural students in Sarawak will have to spend RM300 on transportation charges just to claim the RM100 allocated to them under the Budget 2011.
At a Press conference on 23 October, Sarawak teachers’ Union president William Ghani Bina said it was not only inconvenient for the students to go to the town to collect the money but also costly for them to do so.
He said that spending RM300 to get the RM100 would defeat the purpose of giving them the money to buy books.
“It will be more meaningful for the RM100 to be given to the students’ respective schools to buy library books or computers as this will be more useful to them. If a town schools has 2,000 students, the money collected will be big enough for effective long term use,” he added.
William said that RM100 was not much today and it would be better for the government to consider giving the money to the schools to handle. – The Star.
Is this part of the election goodies?
SIBU: Rural students in Sarawak will have to spend RM300 on transportation charges just to claim the RM100 allocated to them under the Budget 2011.
At a Press conference on 23 October, Sarawak teachers’ Union president William Ghani Bina said it was not only inconvenient for the students to go to the town to collect the money but also costly for them to do so.
He said that spending RM300 to get the RM100 would defeat the purpose of giving them the money to buy books.
“It will be more meaningful for the RM100 to be given to the students’ respective schools to buy library books or computers as this will be more useful to them. If a town schools has 2,000 students, the money collected will be big enough for effective long term use,” he added.
William said that RM100 was not much today and it would be better for the government to consider giving the money to the schools to handle. – The Star.
Is this part of the election goodies?
