THE Education Ministry (MOE) must set up more vocational schools to assist and raise the living standards of the marginalised, especially the B40.
Non-governmental organisation (NGO), Malaysian Indian Voice (MIV), said this will directly assist the younger generation to raise their standards of living, in the future.
“We request the Government to establish more of such schools so that youngsters can also stay away from social ills,” its chairman V Pappa Raidu said, in a statement.
Offering solutions, he said that the MOE can immediately enact policies to help students who did not excel in schools to get placement at vocational and technical education facilities to learn various skills such as on electrics and electronics, plumbing, air-condition maintenance, welding, automotive and motorcycle repair, and recycling.
Pappa Raidu stressed that the students should be taught for free, adding that their contribution to the economy in the future would offset the costs of training them.
“These initiatives, if done correctly and systematically, would bring prosperity to them and our country.
“And we need such programmes as currently, we depend too much on migrant workers to do such jobs, resulting in huge capital outflow,” he added.
Pappa Raidu noted that if there was a surplus of such trained workforce due to the programme in the future, they could always venture to other countries to earn a living.
“It’s time for us to raise the socio-economic status of our poor and underserved, instead of meddling in other country’s problems as it won’t help our future generation to prosper,” he remarked. – Oct 17, 2021.
