Tapah MP M. Saravanan urges the Education Ministry to maintain 12 weekly Tamil language periods, saying mother tongue education is vital to cultural identity.
PETALING JAYA: MIC deputy president Datuk Seri M. Saravanan has urged the Education Ministry to retain the existing 12 weekly Tamil language teaching periods in Tamil national-type schools (SJK(T)), objecting to a proposed reduction under the 2027 curriculum restructuring.
Saravanan, who is also Tapah MP, said he had written to Education Minister Datuk Seri Fadhlina Sidek to express his strong opposition to the proposed reduction from 12 to 10 periods a week.
He stressed that Tamil schools played a crucial role in preserving the language, cultural identity and heritage of the Tamil community in Malaysia.
