Segamat Tamil school surviving despite deprivation

The SRJK(T) Ladang Segamat school premises located in the Segamat district in Johor is 70 years old and yet it has been left in a dire state for many years. The estate owner IOI Plantation Bhd had allocated five-acres of land for this Tamil school to be relocated with a new premise about 10 years ago.

But the Segamat district education department failed to take any steps to relocate this dilapidated school. The Segamat education department ignored this run-down Tamil school despite the fact that Deputy Education Minister P Kamalanathan is from MIC.

Why was the land given by IOI Bhd not used to construct new premises for the school? Only the Johor MIC and Segamat education department have the answer, if at all.

This estate Tamil school's enrollment fell to 23 students about two years ago but has since increased its numbers to 40 students. In the recent UPSR examination, SRJK(T) Ladang Segamat scored 100 percent passes and because of this, more students are enrolling in the school.

The school’s achievements speak volumes for its reputation as a credible learning centre. This small estate school has even won national and international awards it is heartening to see another high achieving Tamil school come up.

Students from town areas are coming to this estate school because of its improved performance. But the decayed and dilapidated school building, that has seen better times in the 70-years of its existence, is prompting parents to pull out their children and place them in the nearby national-type schools.

The deputy education minister claimed in The Star on Aug 28 that from 2009, Tamil primary schools have received a total of over RM800 million for maintenance, new buildings, and infrastructure improvements. The same deputy minister now says that this school will be rebuilt from the 2018 allocations.

He also claimed that the ministry had allocated MR100,000 in 2017 to renovate the premises. But Segamat education department spent RM80,000 for a new bare and empty overhead shed. Anyone with common sense can see that the value of this shed cannot be more than RM10,000. The deputy education minister must investigate how such a bare overhead shed was billed for RM80,000. The school premises cannot be renovated under its present condition. It will simply collapse.

The Ministry of Education must stop this uncaring attitude towards Tamil Schools. These schools have to appeal many times before they can get allocations from education departments, unlike national type Malay schools who receive more than enough allocations. The PIBG (Parent-Teacher Association) support is limited because of the lower income level of these parents.

MIC, instead of pressing the education ministry to replace the old premises with a new building on the estate's allocated land, has become the defender of the education department’s inaction and intimidation.

SRJK(T) Ladang Segamat is a high-achieving school and needs to be supported with new classroom buildings, library, computer lab and even a science lab. Without proper education, the Indian community and Indian children in Ladang Segamat and its neighbourhood, face a bleak future. It is their hope that some well-placed people in this area will come forward to help the 70-year-old this SRJK(T) Ladang Segamat to becomes a higher achieving centre.- FMT

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