KUALA LUMPUR: MIC vice-president Datuk M Saravanan wants the Education Ministry to review the Tamil language syllabus at primary school level to maintain the interest of Indian students in their mother tongue.
He said, the existing Tamil language syllabus did not help the students to master the language, especially since the teaching of the Science and Mathematics subjects in English.
He was speaking to reporters after officiating at the Tamil School Retired Teachers Welfare Association’s annual general meeting in Brickfields here yesterday.
Saravanan, who is also federal territories and urban well-being deputy minister, also called for a review of the syllabus and content of the Tamil language textbooks.
On the scheduled demolition of the Sri Maha Kaliamman temple in Jalan Cochrane to make way for a proposed development, he said the government would not demolish any house of worship indiscriminately.
The deputy minister said temples set to make way for development projects in the city would be relocated and given alternative land and freehold land for the construction of new temples, with government allocation amounting to RM200,000. — Bernama