Apparently, the Tourism Minister assumed that most Indian tourists were proficient in English.
MIC Youth has called on the Government to ensure that there were proper signages and announcements in Tamil at airports to cater for Tamil-speaking tourists, Tamil Nesan reported.
Its secretary R. Sivaraj said it came as a surprise when the Tourism Minister assumed that most Indian tourists were proficient in English.
He said there were tourists from South India who only knew Tamil.
Sivaraj was responding to Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen’s reply in Parliament yesterday that Tamil was not included in the promotional Malaysia Truly Asia DVD as most Indian visitors were from the middle-income group and were proficient in English.
Tamil Nesan reported that the Tamil Foundation, Education Welfare Research Foundation (EWRF) and Child Information Learning Development Centre were jointly organising a seminar on the formation of Tamil school boards on Oct 31 at the NUPW hall in Petaling Jaya.
Foundation president A. Soorian said the boards would look into issues concerning Tamil schools.
He said currently less than 10% of the 523 Tamil schools had school boards whereas 100% of Chinese schools had them.
He added that, prior to independence, estate managements formed their own school boards to pay teachers’ salaries and the role was subsequently taken over by the government.
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