KUALA LUMPUR: Selangor can expect more schools when the mid-term review of the 9th Malaysia Plan looks at improving the needs of schools in urban areas, said Education Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein.

“The issue of overcrowding at schools will be given priority as we plan to build new schools and increase the number of classrooms especially in Selangor,” he said when visiting SMK Pandan Mewah and SJK (C) On Pong (2) in Pandan yesterday.

Light moment: Ong and Hishammuddin sharing a joke with Barisan’s candidates
for the Pandan constituency’s Teratai state seat Datuk Lum Weng Keong
(third from right) and Chempaka seat Nosimah Hashim (right) in Pandan yesterday.

He said he would approve an allocation to air-condition a hall for SMK Pandan Mewah and build an annexe at the new On Pong (2) school.

“We will continue what we have initiated but in order to have continuation to our plans, we need the mandate and support of the people,” he said.

He also spoke of a win-win situation of corporate companies developing Tamil schools in the estates.

On personal attacks, Hishammuddin said: “There are parties who tried to run down the candidates in Pandan but I assure you that the Barisan front in Pandan is strong and united.”

On a lighter note, Hishammuddin described incumbent Pandan MP Datuk Ong Tee Keat’s large billboard along the Middle Ring Road II as “very glamorous” and he might follow suit at his Sembrong constituency in Johor.

source: theStar