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pUchong: A RM30 million educationevelopment und has been made available

rom next year by an Sri Khalid Ibrahim'sdministration or all Selangor schools thateed assistance. Vernacular, public and Islamic religious

schools acing nancial constraints may applyor the Selangorku grant.

Te state recognises the importance oeducation in creating potential or our uturedevelopment; that is why we are ocusingheavily on it, said the Menteri Besar.

Khalid made the announcement during agroundbreaking ceremony or the construc-

tion o a multipurpose hall in SJK (C) SinMing here on Wednesday (Dec 7).

Te Selangorku grant can be used byschools or both inrastructure and education

programmes.Selangorku, unveiled during the tabling o

the 2012 state budget last month, will undvarious welare programmes using dividends

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amounting to RM300 million rom state-linked companies.

Schools that need new buildings to accom-modate greater enrolment, hire teachers, orrun special classes or slower students can ap-

ply or the und.Te und, which will be disbursed accord-

ing to the needs o the respective schools,also moves away rom the race-based quotasused or annual allocations to educationalinstitutions.

Selangor currently allocates RM6 millionto Chinese vernacular and Islamic schools,

while amil vernacular schools get RM4 mil-lion annually.

Khalid pointed out that the RM30 millioneducation development und will be in addi-

tion to the RM16 million allocated to schoolshere every year.Afer his speech, he handed a cheque worth

RM50,000 to SJKC Sin Mings board o gov-ernors chairperson, Chai Yoon Peng, or theconstruction o their multipurpose hall.

Te school has so ar managed to raiseRM4 million through donations towards aconstruction cost o RM7 million, and is stillseeking unds.

With the construction o the hall, we willbe able to add space or another 1,000 stu-dents to the school or both morning and a-ternoon sessions, Chai said.

He said the school, attended by 1,750 stu-dents, had to reject the applications o 106Standard One students or their 2012 intake.

Te number o rejections rom Sin Ming

has been growing or the past two years due toshortage o classroom space and increase inpopulation around the school.

We previously did not even have enough