Petaling Jaya, Jan 16 – Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan (Tamil) Seaport has been relocated and not closed, the Education Ministry stated yesterday.
Deputy Education Minister P. Kamalanathan said SJKT Seaport was now in Kampung Lindungan here and the number of Tamil schools in the country remained at 523.
He was responding to the news on several portals that 23 pupils of SJKT Seaport were attending classes under a tree on vacant land after the school was closed abruptly before the 2014 school session began.
Kamalanathan visited the school today at its new site and met with the parents and guardians of the pupils. Also present were Selangor education director Datuk Mahmud Karim and the headmaster of the school, M. Panginiammal.
The deputy minister said the school was relocated as it could not be upgraded at the previous site because the land was owned by several parties, including the Selangor State Development Corporation (PKNS).
“I wish to remind these people not to continue to spread false news. The school was not closed. It was relocated,” he said.
The SJKT Seaport, relocated three kilometres away from the previous site, sports a four-storey building catering to 170 pupils and 16 teachers.
Kamalanathan said the parents and guardians should enrol their children at the school immediately to have them registered for the UPSR or they might miss sitting for the examination.
On the RM100 federal government school aid each for more than five million pupils and students nationwide being distributed from today, Kamalanathan said parent-teacher associations should not make any deduction of fees due to them from the sum.
– Bernama
