24 November, 2009
Soalan : Tuan Charles Anthony A/L R. Santiago (Klang) minta Menteri Dalam Negeri menyatakan KPI untuk pembasmian jenayah di kawasan parlimen klang. Senaraikan strategi baru (selepas implementasi konsep KPI) yang akan diamalkan oleh PDRM untuk membanteras jenayah di kawasan parlimen ini.
Jawapan :
29 June, 2009
Source : Oriental Daily 28/6/09
Title : Recognize 4 independent schools, Selangor government donates 4 million
Source : Sinchew Daily 28/6/09
Title : Khalid hands over mock cheque, Klang 4 independent schools share 2 million
（雪蘭莪‧巴生）雪州大臣丹斯里卡立今日（週六，6月27日）代表州政府移交200萬令吉捐款支票給巴生的4間獨中，即興華中學、濱華中學、中華中學和光華獨中，並由4獨中平分200萬令吉捐款。
大臣希望州政府捐助獨中的舉動，能向中央政府施壓，促使中央政府撥款資助獨中發展。
他週六出席巴生4獨中於巴生濱華中學舉行的“巴生4獨中感恩華社”儀式時，當場將200萬令吉的款項平分捐給4獨中。
卡立表示，國內的華文獨中向來靠華社和董家教三機構無私的奉獻存活，努力地發展校內軟硬體設備，為國家培育不少傑出人才。
獨中應享公平教育權利
因此，他認為，獨中應該與各源流學校一樣，學生們理應享有公平教育的權利，獲得中央政府公平的對待以發展教育。
“州政府希望中央政府正視獨中的發展，我也同意巴生4獨中工委會主席謝松坤的談話，將獨中列入國家教育主流，承認統考文憑。
“自民聯執政雪州，我們決定不計種族落實人民化經濟，公正地對待各源流學校；雖然雪州政府無權撥款協助學校，但仍通過有限的捐款熱心協助州內學校的教育建設工作，當然，我們不忽略獨中的發展。”
學校撥款先申請先處理
卡立强調，民聯政府先採取“先申請先處理”管理方式公正作業，以處理州內學校的捐款申請，絕不會讓後來申請的學校插隊率先得到捐款，因此吁請學校三機構不必擔心。
他說，州政府承諾一定把所宣佈的捐款悉數完全移交給學校，不會拍照宣佈後就無下文，更不會讓有心人中途“干撈”款項。
大臣也表示，民聯政府也希望這將能發揮拋磚引玉的效果，鼓勵更多公眾人士踴躍慷慨解囊資助學校，與州政府一起為推動雪州經濟的目標大前進，作出貢獻。
“培育人才將是雪州未來經濟動向的重要一環，學校扮演著栽培人才的要角，為雪州發展供應專業的人力資源，因此我們重視州內的教育發展。”
出席上述儀式者包括光華獨中董事長黃華民、中華中學董事長拿督蔡崇偉、興華中學董事長謝松坤、署理董事長李平福、雪州議會議長鄧章欽、高級行政議員郭素沁、州行政議員劉天球、艾斯爾再也、羅西雅、哈麗瑪、巴生區國家議員查爾斯和巴生130個社團組織代表等。
Source : Guangming Daily 28/6/09
Title : Give pressure to central government, Selangor donates 2 million for 4 independent schools
2009-06-27 19:18
（雪蘭莪‧巴生）雪州大臣丹斯里卡立今日（週六，6月27日）代表雪州政府移交200萬令吉捐款支票給巴生4間獨中時表示，希望雪州政府此舉能向中央政府施壓，促使中央撥款資助獨中發展。
他說，國內的華文獨中向來靠華社和董家教3機構無私的奉獻存活，努力地發展校內軟硬體設備，為國家培育不少傑出人才；因此，獨中應與各源流學校一樣，學生理應享有公平教育權力，獲得中央政府公平的對待以發展教育。
“雪州政府希望，中央政府正視獨中的發展，我也同意巴生4獨中工委會主席謝松坤的談話，將獨中列入國家教育主流，承認統考文憑。”
他週六在雪州議會議長鄧章欽偕同下，出席見證巴生四獨中於巴生濱華獨中舉辦“巴生4獨中感恩華社”儀式時，當場將200萬令吉款項平分捐給4獨中，即巴生興華獨中、光華獨中、中華獨中和濱華獨中。
卡立說，自民聯執政雪州後，即決定不計種族落實人民化經濟，公正地對待各源流學校；雖然雪州政府無權撥款協助學校，但仍通過有限捐款，熱心協助州內學校的教育建設工作，當然，我們不忽略獨中發展。
他提到，雪州民聯政府先採取“先申請先處理”管理方式公正作業，以處理雪州內學校的捐款申請，絕不會讓後來申請的學校插隊率先得到捐款，因此吁請學校3機構不必擔心。
“雪州政府承諾，一定把所宣佈的捐款悉數完全移交給學校，不會拍照宣佈後就無下文，更不會讓有心人中途干撈款項，藉此暗諷雪州前朝政府處理學校捐款的官僚作風。”
出席者包括光華獨中董事長黃華民、中華獨中董事長拿督蔡崇偉、興華獨中署理董事長李平福、雪州行政議員劉天球、艾斯爾再也、羅西雅、哈麗瑪、巴生區國家議員查爾斯、高級行政議員郭素沁和巴生130個社團組織代表等。
27 June, 2009
Petik dari : Dr. Rani’s blog
Ahli Parlimen Klang YB Charles Santiago bersama-sama ADUN Meru YB Dr Hj Abd Rani bin Hj Osman telah mengadakan lawatan di Perpustakaan Awam Klang pagi tadi.
13 April, 2009
Sumber : Sinar Harian 12 April 2009
Sumber : Oriental daily 12 April 2009
Tajuk : Minum Tina masuk hospital, keluarga suspek lapor polis
22 March, 2009
Sumber : Sinar Harian
SHAH ALAM – Majlis Perbandaran Klang (MPK) belum membuat keputu-san berhubung rancangan mengubah nama lokasi perniagaan popular ‘Little India’ di sini kepada nama baru iaitu Medan Kelana.
Ahli Parlimen Klang, Charles Santiago berkata, nama lokasi yang menempatkan lebih 100 premis perniagaan itu akan kekal dan tiada sebarang keputusan menukarnya dibuat mana-mana pihak termasuk MPK.
“MPK belum buat apa-apa (keputusan lagi) dan saya telah dimaklumkan oleh Ganasan, Ahli Majlis MPK bahawa nama sedia ada itu tetap dikekalkan,” katanya kepada Sinar Harian semalam.
Beliau berkata demikian ketika diminta mengulas cadangan penjenamaan semula ‘Little India’ oleh MPK hingga menimbulkan keresahan pelbagai pihak termasuk pemilik kedai dan peniaga di kawasan tersebut.
MPK dilaporkan akan mengubah nama Litle India yang juga pusat membeli belah dan pelancongan terkenal yang dibina sebelum perang di laluan sepanjang Jalan Tengku Kelana, Klang, menjadi Medan Kelana.
Sementara itu, Ahli Parlimen Kapar, S Manikavasagam berkata, MPK diharap mengkaji semula cadangan tersebut memandangkan populariti lokasi perniagaan itu sudah sebati dengan penduduk tempatan dan pelancong asing.
“Setakat ini saya belum menerima apa-apa surat berhubung perkara tersebut daripada MPK mahupun kerajaan negeri tetapi saya berharap MPK akan mengekalkan nama tersebut dan membantah sekiranya cadangan tersebut dilaksanakan,” katanya.
Dalam perkembangan sama, MIC Selangor semalam dilaporkan membantah rancangan itu kerana langkah itu akan menghilangkan identiti kawasan tersebut.
Pengerusinya, Datuk G Palanivel berkata, MIC negeri akan merayu kepada Sultan Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah supaya campur tangan dalam isu perubahan nama kawasan itu.
Source : Malaysia Nanban
11 March, 2009
Soalan : Tuan Charles Santiago minta Menteri Kerja Raya menyatakan kemajuan pembinaan jambatan merentasi sungai Klang ketiga yang diumumkan pada 4 Mac 2008 dan rancangan-rancangan lain untuk mengurangkan kesesakan lalulintas di pusat bandar Klang.
Jawapan :
11 February, 2009
Source : The Star
Tuesday February 10, 2009
VALLEY VIEWS WITH ELAN PERUMAL
THE relocation of the Klang transportation operation from the town centre to the Klang Sentral in Meru, about 10km away, is fast making the state and local authorities lose the goodwill of the public.
The latest of a series of peaceful demonstrations against the move was held outside the Plaza MPK next to the old North Klang bus terminal last Saturday.
The protesters comprising bus operators and drivers, commuters, traders and residents vented their anger on the Klang Municpal Council (MPK) with all sorts of messages on banners, placards and posters condemning the authorities.
Some of the more telling messages on their 40-plus banners, placards and posters are “Don’t turn the royal town into a ghost town”, “Don’t let the North Klang bus terminal become a graveyard” and “We are not animals to be chased away as you like’’.
Surely, the authorities should realise by now that their unpopular and unwise decision to shift the bus terminal operation to the RM12mil custom-built transport hub is causing much damage to their relationship with the general public, in particular the majority low-income group who are dependent on public transport to get around.
There are several reasons the move is unwise, unreasonable and unacceptable.
First, the location is too far for the poor commuters who are generally residents in and around the town centre. To board a bus to travel to their destination, they will have to go the Klang Sentral in Meru, about 10km away. They will need to board a bus in town to get to Meru, costing them extra financial burden and wasting valuable time.
Secondly, the location of the new transport hub is certainly not too appropriate as Meru is by all accounts a modern township with its residents being relatively well-off, comprising people of the middle and upper classes. These people do not need to depend on public transport as almost all of them have cars.
It is the low-income and the poor living in and around the Klang town centre who really depend on the public transport system to get around. The old North Klang terminal has been an economic lifeline for most of them.
Thirdly, the contention that the relocation of the public transport operation is necessary to ease the daily traffic havoc in the royal town does not hold water.
The daily traffic chaos in Klang is not caused by the existence of the bus terminal, but by the ad hoc road works and the current major road projects in and around the town. If and when the road works are properly organised and managed and the mega road projects completed, the congestion in Klang will certainly be history or at least be under control and managable.
As a long-time resident of Klang myself, I find it rather strange for the authorities to embark on such an irrational move.
I have never before experienced or encountered so many people expressing anger and dissatisfaction against the authorities, especially the MPK, over anything like the way they are reacting to the relocation move.
Take the express bus operators for example. I had never expected them to be so vocal and visible in their opposition to the relocation move.
Last Thursday, they held a protest after refusing to drive their buses into terminal A of the Klang Sentral. They were frustrated over the lack of commuters at the new hub.
There were at least four other such demonstrations around the district, including those at Jalan Taiping in North Klang and Kapar since the Klang Sentral transport hub was opened on Dec 27 last year.
From the tone of the messages sent through their protest posters and placards, the people just don’t want what used to be the hustling-bustling town centre to become a ghost town.
They believe that the move will result in some 1,000-odd businesses around the former terminal area dying an unnatural and unwarranted death.
Besides the shops and stalls at Jalan Pos, Jalan Pos Baru, Jalan Batu Tiga Lama, Lorong Kepayang and the Persiaran Sultan Ibrahim, more than 150 traders from the Plaza MPK are also facing a bleak time, with some expecting their shops to close.
A businessman, who wants to be identified only as Eng, asked why the MPK was “killing” its own projects such as the Plaza MPK and the old bus terminal.
Eng pointed out that the MPK had invested millions of ringgit to build the Plaza MPK in which the superstore Mydin is the anchor tenant.
He said the complex would become insignificant and dead without the bus terminal.
“I cannot understand the MPK rationale, spending RM700,000 to build the open-air bus terminal and then close it down after just two years,” Eng said.
“And the council is willing to jeopardise these projects implemented with public funds in order to ensure the success of a private project,’’ he said.
Eng is correct. The question of accountability, transparency and good governance of the MPK must be evaluated as almost RM150mil of public money has apparently gone down the drain.
It seems that over the past five years, the MPK has wasted millions of ringgit on projects that have not really benefited the public and it has been reported that it relied heavily on bank facilities to operate its day-to-day affairs.
Klang Traders Association chairman Abdul Rani Moin, who was among one of the protesters last Saturday, stressed that the traders and the commuters were not against development but the MPK had handled the situation poorly.
He said the authorities had caused a lot of misery to the traders and the commuters.
“The authorities had gone all out to ensure the bus operation is moved out of Klang town and we don’t understand why they are doing it at all costs.
“The MPK is doing it at the expense of the traders who have been here for decades and the commuters,’’ Rani said.
MPK president Mislan Tugiu had nonchalantly told me recently that the people would resist any change and this was exactly what was happening on the controversial relocation.
Mislan said it was just a matter of getting used to the new arrangement as the council felt that this was the best solution to resolve the traffic problem in the town.
However, most Klang residents will agree that the current traffic congestion in town is being caused by the construction of a flyover at Persiaran Sultan ibrahim,
To shift the operation of bus services to Meru is surely not a very intelligent thing to do, especially when the local route buses and the Klang-KL buses are concerned.
Does it make sense if someone in the Klang town wanting to go to KL has to travel about 10km to the Klang Sentral to board a KL-Klang bus which then travels back 8km via the Federal Highway to KL?
This means travelling nearly an extra 18km one-way and also being subjected to a delay of about 40 minutes each time.
How can the authorities explain why commuters had to undergo this sort of treatment in the name of development and change?
The MPK is obviously refusing to listen to the voice of the people and has even threatened to flex its muscle on the bus operators if they do not toe the line,
The commuters, business operator and the NGOs are, however, hoping that the Selangor state government will intervene to rectify the situation.
Their only hope lies in the hands of Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim who in December last year had directed the MPK to restructure the services of the buses by the end of this month.
Till than, I’ll keep my fingers crossed and hope that justice will be done in the best interests of the thousands of commuters in the royal town.
The bus stops at your office, Tan Sri, and we pray you know what to do for our well-being.
11 February, 2009
Source : The Star
Tuesday February 3, 2009
Story and photo by ELAN PERUMAL
MORE than 600 business operators and building owners have signed a petition urging the Klang Municipal Council (MPK) not to shift the base of the Klang-Kuala Lumpur buses out of the North Klang bus terminal, which has ceased operation since Dec 27.
The petition was submitted to the MPK last Friday in a bid to appeal to it to stop shifting the operation of the KL-bound buses out of the terminal tomorrow.
Traders and Owners pro term committee coordinator C. Krishnan said the traders felt that relocating the operation base of the buses would virtually be breaking their rice bowls.
Krishnan said since the relocation of the town’s transport terminal operation to Meru, they had already experienced more than 50% losses in business and felt that the latest MPK move would be likened to nailing the last nail on the coffin.
Quiet time: The shops operating around the terminal have incurred heavy losses since the terminal was moved to Klang Sentral.“We can only think that the MPK is being crazy as we can’t see any reason for such a change. The move is driving us mad and making life difficult for the commuters. We simply cannot understand what the authorities are doing,’’ he told StarMetro.
Committee member Zulkifli Osman said the MPK had failed to listen to the commuters, bus operators and traders as it implemented the new systems without consulting them.
He said it should listen to the grouses of the people before making decisions on any matter affecting them.
“Mentri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim has instructed the MPK to hold meetings with the affected parties to listen to their views but it has not done so. The MPK only calls for meetings to tell us of plans already decided on, not to consult us,’’ Zulkifli said.
General accessory shop operator Lim Lin Kok said he hoped that they would be given an opportunity to be heard before the move took effect.
He said they had also submitted the copy of the petition to the mentri besar’s office with the hope that their views would be seriously considered.
“We are keeping our fingers crossed and believe that the intervention from the state government will help favour us and the commuters,’’ Lim said.
MPK president Mislan Tugiu, meanwhile, said the council had allowed the affected parties to express their views at several meetings before implementing the changes.
He, however, promised to study the petition submitted by the business operators and building owners.
The town bus operation from the North Klang terminal and the express bus terminal at Lorong Kepayang were relocated to the Klang Sentral on Dec 27.
The people are unhappy that they are now forced to travel an extra 11km to Meru to board the express buses, just to go to other parts of the Klang town and to Kapar and Kuala Selangor.
They are distributing leaflets to express their protests against the MPK decision.
Under the new system, the MPK has created several pick-up points at various parts of North Klang to facilitate the movement of the buses.
10 February, 2009
Source : The Star
Monday February 9, 2009
Story and photos by ELAN PERUMAL
EXPRESS bus operators disappointed by the poor business at the Klang Sentral transport hub have stepped up the pressure by organising a boycott of the terminal.
Besides holding a demonstration, the operators have also decided not to use the designated bays at Terminal A of the hub. Instead, they are picking up and dropping off passengers from the roads around the hub.
A visit to the site showed that the hub at Jalan Meru, which was opened on Dec 27, was almost a ghost town with the bays almost totally empty.
Empty seats: There were hardly any passengers waiting to board.Terminal B, which is supposed to cater to Klang-Kuala Lumpur buses, was also quiet and very few passengers could be seen. However, buses were parked at the bays.
The scene was a total contrast to the former site at the North Klang bus terminal, which used to be a hive of activity with hundreds of buses and thousands of commuters crowding the terminal every day.
Most of the shops and stalls, including the food court located at the Terminal A complex, were not opened due to poor business.
Shira Express bus operations manager Suhaizam Md Shah said the company had 17 buses that provided services from Johor Baru to Haatyai.
He said business had dropped by more than 70% and he hardly had 10 passengers for each trip.
“We have decided not to use the terminal in order to escape the RM10 per trip charge that we have to pay every time our buses enter the terminal,’’ he said, adding that they had also paid a deposit of RM4,000 for using the bay.
Seranas Travel and Tours managing director Ho Chui Sing said the company had experienced a sharp drop in business.
All quiet: The food court is also emtpy with many of the stalls not open.He said their buses used to be packed on almost every trip when the company operated from Lorong Kepayang at the North Klang terminal.
“Commuters find it more convenient to go to the express bus terminal at Section 17 in Shah Alam from Klang rather than going to Klang Sentral which is 11km away from the town,
“We are keeping our fingers crossed and hope that the commuters will slowly start using this hub,’’ he said.
A stall operator who only identified himself as Ismail said he had temporarily closed his lot at the food court on the first floor after operating for more than a month.
“I cannot afford to run the business without customers,’’ he said, adding that all the stalls at the area were not opened.
Norsiah Yusof, who sells drinks and snacks from two stalls at the Terminal B, said she had been operating for only five days and the business was very slow.
She said the rental for each of the stalls was RM2,300 and her average collection per day was only RM60.
“The authorities must make this work or else it will defeat the purpose of shifting the transport hub here,’’ she said.
3 January, 2009
Source : Sinchew Jit Poh 1st Jan 2009
Title : Ronnie Liu : The biggest population area in Selangor, hope Klang to be promoted as developed city
MPK President Mislan and Klang MP Charles Santiago also attended the countdown activity.
Charles Santiago 
