Budget 2011 Reactions

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 16, 2010)

“The Government had allocated RM6.4 billion for the Education Ministry to development expenditure to build and upgrade schools, hostels, facilities and equipment. The Ministry of Education shall draw up an intensive and comprehensive plan to ensure the money allocated to upgrade schools will be utilized in line with the “inclusive education” system.

“The inclusive education system comprises of an accessible infrastructure and well trained teachers whom can cater for all students. The inclusive system will enable the disabled students to attend “normal schools” just like their normal peers without being segregated to their own group based on their disabilities. This problem has been long overlooked by the government,” he said in a statement today.

He said a whooping RM 1.2 billion has been allocated to the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development to carry out various welfare and community programmes which includes RM280 million for training programme to benefit 80,000 registered disabled individuals in this country.

“I strongly recommend the allocation should be utilized more to provide comprehensive trainings such as IT courses, automobile repairing, sales and marketing and others to enable the disabled individuals to cope up with the rapidly growing economic and contribute to the productivity of the country,” he said. – theSun

The Selangor and Federal Territory Damai Disabled Persons Association President V.Murugeswaran