Job Opportunity

careerJob Opportunity
Customer Care Consultants' are needed by a well established telecommunications company to be based in Bandar Sunway. Benefits as per below;

• 1 year contract after which will be converted to Permanent basis
• Dental benefits of RM 1600.00 per annum
• Other medical expenses are claimable
• Up to 2 months performance bonus
• Additional fixed allowance of RM 100
• Transportation provided right up to doorstep for shift ending 10.00pm onwards
• Basic salary will commensurate with experience with a minimum of RM 1500.00

Interested applicants are urged to send a copy of their resume to career@puteramic.net by 2nd July 2008.

Visit SEED TALK . Blog by Putera MIC's Career Development Officer , Mr.Yogendran.

As always , don't forget to pass the information to others. And keep yourself updated with Seed Talk as Mr.Yogendran will be sharing valuable tips on Career Development.

Novinthen Krishnan

Students & Education

A couple of days ago, The Star published an article entitled, “Bus schools roll into Indian slums”. The article was bout India’s next attempt to educate all children from 6 to 14 years old which was at times against the resistance of parents. Their plan is simple but it’s very effective on bringing the interest of the poor children to study. The idea is simply, send a yellow bus exactly like a school bus which attracts the interest of others seeing it. Since they have painted it in yellow, they believe that it can direct sight towards the bus. A team of Social workers & teachers will spend more then 2 hours in cities where the number of the non-educated children is high. They play educational games & give some foods for the children. Basically they plan is, Go-Stop- and Create the interest for studying among children– move to another place. It’s simply to bring a big awareness among the India citizen. This is so that they send their children to school including the poor ones as wellIn Tamil Nadu India, they have produced and advertisement called “ Padicha than hero, illathi zero” whereby in the advertisement the popular actors explains the importance of the education specially early childhood education and it seems to be a highly effective idea because most of Tamil Nadu people of all ages are addicted to movies & actors. As we know, most of T.Nadu citizen will keep one of the actors as a role model for them. Thus advertisement also brings a good respond’s among T.nadu people.


The T.Nadu Advertisement

In Malaysia, the number of less educated children is less just then 10%. This is because as Malaysia citizen, we know that education is the most important asset. But yet, we have some parents who don’t know the importance of education. The numbers of dropout Indian students are higher nowadays and a survey has been done to evaluate their eagerness to study, Most of them said, Its hard study with book and to remember facts. Is this really because of the low mentality level or laziness of the student to study? Even Malaysian government has provide us with vocational school to those who hard to face book to study. Apart from that, Malaysian government has introduced MLVK Course for dropout students. After their MLVK course, they can continue studies in diploma and so on.

So since there are a lot of alternative ways in our education system, why Indian students specially school dropout students don’t take the alternative way to continue their studies? What really caused them to hate studies? What kind of action or plan that we as Indian Teenagers and Malaysian citizens should take to tell the importance of the education for them? I’m very much sure that we don’t want our Indian student end up as gangsters, robbers, & drug addicts. Let’s don’t accuse others on this matter, let’s ask this matter to ourselves.

TAWARAN BIASISWA

Please take note. Just received this from Mr.M.Dinagaran ( Biro Pengajian Tinggi Awam IPTA )

TAWARAN BIASISWA JABATAN PERKHIDMATAN AWAM (JPA) BAGI MENGIKUTI PENGAJIAN
PERINGKAT DIPLOMA & IJAZAH SARJANA MUDA DI IPTA/ IPTS BAGI SESI 2008/2009

1.Tawaran dibuka kepada pelajar yang telah mendapat surat tawaran
melanjutkan pengajian prkt dip/ degree bagi sesi 2008/2009 dan pelajar yang
sedang mengikuti pengajian tahun 2 dan ke atas. (Pelajar IPTS – MMU, UNITEN dan
UTP) boleh memohon untuk mandapatkan biasiswa tersebut)

2.Permohonan
boleh dibuat secara online dan maklumat lanjut boleh dilayari melalui
http://www.jpa.gov.my// http://esilav2.jpa.gov.my/
dan sekiranya terdapat masalah teknikal anda boleh merujuk kepada talian
03-88853550/ 03-88853559/ 03-88853529
(8.00pg-5.00ptg)(Isnin-Jumaat)

3.Tarikh tutup permohonan pada 13 Julai 2008

4. Pertanyaan
mengenai program tajaan boleh dibuat dengan menghubungi talian 03-88853049 atau
melalui email esila@jpa.gov.my

Dear brothers and sisters,Do not forget to pass this information to others.

Novinthen Krishnan

PM: Cabinet panel to help Indians

Date : 27 June 2008
Source : NST

KUALA LUMPUR: A new cabinet committee has been formed to look into the welfare of Indians, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said last night.
He said the committee, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu, would meet on Monday.Among the issues to be discussed were the standard of living of the Indian community and ways to improve and upgrade their lifestyles.At a press conference after chairing the Barisan Nasional supreme council meeting, Abdullah said the setting up of the committee was part of the Mid-Term Review of the Ninth Malaysia Plan. He said another committee would also be set up to look into the development of rural folk in Sabah and Sarawak, adding that representatives of BN component parties would be invited to sit on the committee.
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Jawatan kosong di bawah Kementerian Pengajian

Just got this information from Mr.Uvaraja. Please take note.

Iklan jawatan Pegawai Pendidikan Pengajian Tinggi DH41 dan DH29 di bawah
Kementerian Pengajian Tinggi Malaysia. Maklumat lanjut, klik di sini.
Untuk memohon layari www.elx.gov.my.

Iklan jawatan Pegawai Pendidikan Pengajian Tinggi DH41 dan DH29 di bawah
Kementerian Pengajian Tinggi Malaysia. Maklumat lanjut, klik di sini.
Untuk memohon layari www.elx.gov.my.

Do pass the information to others.

Novinthen Krishnan

CONGRATULATIONS SJKT MASAI, JOHOR

On behalf of PUTERA MIC i would like to CONGRATULATE the students, teachers and the parents from SJKT Masai on becoming the CHAMPION at the recently concluded Science Fair for Young Children which was organised by Tamil Foundation and CCI.

Here we are pleased to share with you what we captured when we met the CHAMPIONS at their competition in Johor Bahru.

Aid for Indian students

Date : 22 June 2008

Source : The Star

THE MIC-owned Maju Institute of Educational Development (MIED) has launched a scholarship scheme to assist Malaysian Indian students who are unsuccessful in getting scholarships.
MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said that scholarships would be offered to those who have excellent results in the SPM and STPM examinations.“We will give priority to those who had submitted their results for the annual President’s Merit Award,” he said.

Samy Vellu (fifth from left) and other MIC leaders posing with top SPM and STPM scorers at the awards presentation ceremony.

According to Samy Vellu, only 50 out of the 192 students who had appealed to the Public Services Department (PSD), through MIED, for scholarships, were successful.“We will absorb the 142 unsuccessful students into our scholarship scheme to enable them to pursue foundation studies in science or business at AIMST University in Sungai Petani, Kedah,” he said, adding that students who scored 10 1As and above would be awarded full scholarships whilst those with 9 1As and 8 1As would be awarded 60% and 50% fee waivers, respectively, to pursue foundation courses in science.“There are also about 100 full scholarships for students who wish to pursue foundation studies in business,” he said.

This scheme will help more Indian students further their studies.Samy Vellu had earlier presented trophies, certificates and cash awards to 374 students who scored 8 1As and above in the SPM examinations, and 37 students who had 4As and above in the STPM examinations last year.“By honouring these high achievers, we hope to motivate them and build up their self-esteem and confidence,” he said.

MIC, through MIED, has honoured 2,074 students who have done well in the SPM and STPM examinations between 2000 and 2007.

MIC to approve fewer student loans

Date : 21 Jun 2006
Source : The Star

KUALA LUMPUR: The Maju Institute of Educational Development (MIED), MIC's education arm, has been receiving more applications for student loans, but the number of approvals is likely to be reduced due to financial constraints caused by defaulters.
MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said although non-performing loans had been reduced to 17 per cent, the fact that other students were being denied access to these funds remained an urgent matter for MIED. Besides legal action against defaulters, Samy Vellu said the loan programme had been restructured by allocating funds on a yearly basis and not for the duration of the course. For instance, if a student pursued a three-year course, MIED would allocate funds for the first year only. Money for the remaining two years would depend on the student's academic performance and additional funds provided by the student's family.

He said this after presenting MIED loans to 185 applicants, amounting to RM1.5 million at the MIC headquarters yesterday. Of the 185, 90 will pursue medicine.He said since the loan programme was established in the 1980s, about RM90 million had been disbursed to 8,500 students to pursue tertiary education. On the recent public university intake, he reminded Indian students who failed to secure a seat to submit their appeal to the MIC by June 26.The party had requested for an eight per cent intake for Indian students, but had to settle for 6.84 per cent this year.

Submit your appeals to :

Malaysian Indian Congress 6th Floor,
Menara Manickavasagam,
No.1, Jalan Rahmat 50350 ,
Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.

Email : michq@mic.org.my

Phone : 603-40424377
Fax : 603-40427236

Meet the Press [JPA Appeals]

Second shock for students, application for scholarship rejected again

Date :Tuesday June 17, 2008
Source : The Star

Second shock for students, application for scholarship rejected again
BY A. LETCHUMANAN

TWO classmates, both having scored 10As in last year's Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia, are dejected after their applications for JPA scholarships were turned down for the second time.
The two, Venushia Chandran and Preshaantini Ponnaiah, were among the best students from SMK Puteri in Seremban but were shocked to find out their application was rejected recently.
Their parents had sought the assistance of Putera MIC coordinator P. Kamalanathan after learning of the rejection.M. Shanthi said that the family had high hopes that Venushia would be successful following the appeal.

Excellent results: Shanthi (right) showing her daughter Venushia’s results to Kamalanathan. On the left is Preshaantini‘s parents Sasikala Devi and R. Ponnaiah.

“My daughter has been consistently scoring excellent results in the UPSR, PMR and SPM and has been active in the co-curricular activities,” she said.
Shanthi, who is a teacher in a secondary school in Seremban and her husband who is also working in the government service, have two other schooling children and an aged mother to take care of. “We have served the government for more than 20 years. We have been let down,” she said, adding that her husband who is a heart patient has two more years before retirement.
Preshaantini’s father, R. Ponnaiah, 46, also expressed his dissatisfaction after the Public Services Department (PSD) rejected his daughter’s application. “There are other students who come to school in luxurious cars and had been offered the scholarships,” he said.

He said that they had already submitted an appeal to PSD and had submitted copies to MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu and Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam.
Kamalanathan said it was shocking that the two girls who had straight As and were active in co-curricular activities were not given the scholarship. “I don’t know what more they want to be eligible for a JPA scholarship. “They have the good results and had struggled for five years in their studies and after a one hour interview, they are denied the scholarship,” he said.
Kamalanathan said the PSD was killing the future education of the Indian students in the country by denying them the scholarships.

He said PSD should publish the names of the recipients of the JPA scholarships including their results, their schools as well as the courses offered so that it is transparent.
“If all the recipients have better results that these two girls, then we will accept it and ask them to do better next time,” he said.

Something Big Is coming?

Well, just a small post. Some readers were still asking about our earlier post titled "Something Big for bloggers". Well, MANYA AWARDS is our BIG gift to all the Malaysian Bloggers :) Happy blogging guys!

Happy Father's Day

From :

Putera MIC ~ makkal Osai

Date : 9 June 2008
Source : Makkal Osai,Tamil Paper

Increase 8% Indian students to enter Public Universiti -MIC

Source : Berita Harian
Date : 10 June 2008

MIC gesa pengambilan pelajar kaum India ke universiti dinaikkan lapan peratus

PUTRAJAYA: MIC sudah memohon kepada kerajaan untuk meningkatkan peratus pengambilan pelajar dari kaum India ke universiti kepada lapan peratus, tahun ini.

Presidennya, Datuk Seri S Samy Vellu, berkata beliau membuat permohonan itu kepada Menteri Pengajian Tinggi, Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin dalam satu menyuarat, hari ini.

"Selaras dengan pencapaian tinggi ramai pelajar dari kaum India, kami meminta kerajaan meningkatkan kadar pengambilan pelajar ini ke universiti kepada lapan peratus," katanya dalam satu kenyataan hari ini.

Beliau berkata pengambilan ke universiti bagi pelajar kaum India pada 2006 adalah 6.11 peratus, 2005 (5.6 peratus), 2004 (5.9 peratus), 2003 (5.2 peratus), dan 2002 (2.7 peratus).

BLOGGERS’ AWARDS: A step in right direction

KUDOS to Putera MIC for having taken the bold step of acknowledging and interacting with bloggers by announcing the first Manya Bloggers Award 2008 to honour Indian bloggers.

Though they recognise that the Indian bloggers are very critical of MIC, they realise that therein lies the opportunity to reform and move with the times. Getting their views and exploring their aspirations is the way forward, not only for MIC but for the country as a whole.

I congratulate Putera MIC for taking the risk to engage their most vocal critics, thereby opening up a world of opportunities for both the development of the community and the nation.

The 12th general election saw the impact of the new media (blogs, Internet, SMS) on the voters and the government is still addressing the consequences of ignoring this phenomenon.

Putera MIC is on the right path and engaging the bloggers is the best solution.
I do hope more youths will take up blogging and many more will actively contribute to this new media.

By : THOMAS SAMUEL Selayang, Selangor
Source : New Straits Times

Putera MIC wants to honour the best Indian bloggers

Source : News Straits Time
Date: 06/06/2008


KUALA LUMPUR: They have become constant targets in the Malaysian Indian blogs but the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) still wants to recognise and honour Indian bloggers.
Putera MIC will hold the Manya Blogger Awards 2008 ceremony in August to announce the best bloggers in nine categories.The categories are Most Popular Male Blogger, Most Popular Female Blogger, Best Entertainment Blog, Best Multi-Authored Blog, Best Personal Blog, Best Photoblog, Best Sociopolitical Blog, Best Tech Blog and Best Tamil Blog.The majority of the Indian bloggers, numbering about 1,000 are critical of the MIC, said P. Kamalanathan, Putera MIC national co-ordinator."Bloggers are critical Malaysians which is good for the country. We do accept their constructive criticisms," said Kamalanathan, yesterday.

He added Malaysian Indians tend to focus on blogs where the contents are sensitive in nature."I guess it is because news sells," he added.Putera MIC chairman for the ICT bureau Novinthen Krishnan said the majority of bloggers were students aged between 23 and 24."We still accept their views because young minds change the political world," he added.He said the 39 nominees were picked by Putera MIC and a group of professional bloggers."These nominees were chosen not only because they gave constructive criticism but they also offered ways to address issues affecting the Indians." The winners will be chosen through an online poll at www.manyaawards.com and also by a team of three judges. The one-month-long poll carries a weightage of 60 per cent while the judges' decision is 40 per cent.

Putera MIC awards for blogging excellence

Since the March 8 elections, the blogsphere which hitherto remained an unexplored realm by politicians has now become an important facet in the battle of minds and votes.

MCPX

Recognising this, Putera MIC wants to expose more Indian youths to blogging and encourage them to be fair in their postings and content.

In view of this, the wing will be giving out the Manya Bloggers Awards for blogging excellence in August.

At present, most of the blogs which focus on issues pertaining to the Indian Malaysian community are highly critical of MIC, which suffered an electoral massacre losing 18 of its 28 seats.

The latest move by Putera MIC is seen as an attempt to regain lost ground, especially after losing support from the Indian youths.

This was evident when the wing announced that 50 percent of those in the running for the awards in the different categories were critical of MIC.

At a press conference in Kuala Lumpur today, Putera MIC chief P Kamalanathan said: "Many young Indians are still not aware of this (blogging)."

"We understand that bloggers want something good to happen in Malaysia. That is why we are encouraging fair blogging here. We are open to constructive criticism."

Nine categories

According to him, Indian Malaysian bloggers currently make up one percent of Malaysian bloggers and are mostly university students.

As for the awards, Kamalanathan said there are nine categories which cover areas such as socio-political, technology, photoblog, Tamil language and entertainment.

While the above categories are limited to Indian bloggers, two other categories - MIC Putera Choice Award and Readers' Choice Award - are open to all bloggers

The nominees have already been chosen based on suggestions from existing bloggers. The winners will be determined through a combination of a readers' poll (60 percent) and judges discretion (40 percent).

"There will be three judges who are apolitical, independent and bloggers themselves," said Kamalanathan."We will only reveal who the judges are a week before polling closes."

Polling begins at noon tomorrow and will continue until July 6. Readers can cast their votes at www.manyaawards.com.

Winners will be judged based on the quality of the articles, reactions from the public, popularity of the blog, content and framework.

Participation certificates, cash prices, vouchers and trophies await the participants and winners.

Source: Malaysiakini

Related news:The Star

Got hacked!

Pwned By Wizardz
:/ Security Get Down !
good luck
Gr33tz To MxH -
LeDuC - Ir4dex - 0verClockiX(H)- PpSy - Heh & all

This was the hacked message left by the kind hearted souls who hacked our hoster, "Cirtex Hosting" which is based in New York. Many websites,including Putera MIC Portal got affected.I have sent a complaint mail to Cirtex. Hopefully, by evening or nightfall we will be back in action. Till then,lets keep our fingers crossed!

P.S : We didnt get hacked,it is our server which got penetratred by some good hackers. Check this website,it is hosted under our Hoster,Cirtex Hosting . http://adhell.net/ It's the same hack message.

*Must thank Shashi,for he is the one who set this blog in a free server,blogger.com. If I had it my way I would have set it in Wordpress,hosted under Putera MIC's website,that too would have not been functioning now.

Regards,

Novinthen Krishnan

Putera MIC Chief's Interview in NST

Date : 02/06/2008
Media : News Straits Times

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