Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin
KUALA LUMPUR: Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has instructed schools to return any balance from the RM100 school assistance fund back to the government if the money is not claimed by parents on behalf of students.
Parents have a choice as to whether they want to accept the assistance or wish to contribute it to the school, he said.
However, parents must claim the money first before they decide to make it a contribution, said Muhyiddin, who is also Education Minister.
“It’s all right if parents say they don’t need the assistance and so on. We have instructed the schools to return any balance to the ministry and it will be put back into government funds, as it is government money,” he said after the launch of Unesco Day here, yesterday.
— Bernama