NEW MINISTER FOR WELFARE MINISTER OF MALAYSIA

NEW MINISTER FOR WELFARE MINISTER OF MALAYSIA
Badan Latihan dan Hidup Berdikari Malaysia (ILTC) pada 23hb Mac 2016 menyerahkan memorandum kepada ahli-ahli parlimen mendesak supaya golongan orang kurang upaya (OKU) dikecualikan daripada cukai barangan dan perkhidmatan (GST).

Disabled Members Protest

Disabled Members Protest
Disabled Members Protest at JPJ Wangsa Maju

ILTC Malaysia members staged a protest outside JPJ Wangsamaju KL.

ILTC Malaysia members staged a protest outside JPJ Wangsamaju KL.
Disabled group’s protest disabled drivers required to produce doc's medical report.

Friday 24 June 2011

Group wants disabled in all local councils

Friday June 24, 2011

Group wants disabled in all local councils

PETALING JAYA: Members of the disabled must be appointed in all 12 local councils to ensure better representation and a voice to champion issues affecting them, said Inde­pendent Living and Training Centre President Francis Siva.

He said the centre wanted to see more disabled people in the local councils.

“Now, we just have two representatives – one in Petaling Jaya City Council and the other in Klang Municipal Council – compared to three earlier. Our Kajang councillor was removed with no reason given after the 2008-2009 term.

“In 2008, Pakatan Rakyat’s election manifesto promised better representation for the disabled. But now, we have been shortchanged,” he said.

He added that their representatives in Petaling Jaya and Klang helped to create awareness among town planners on the need to have disabled-friendly facilities.

While urging state exco for local government Ronnie Liu to look into the representation for the disabled, Francis said the group did not want Selangor to think that it was doing them a favour.

“We want Selangor to remember that we have equal rights like the others.

“We are not second-class citizens and we are not interested in dirty politics,” he said.

Liu: Difficult to keep NGO quota pledge

Friday June 24, 2011

Liu: Difficult to keep NGO quota pledge

PETALING JAYA: State exco member Ronnie Liu has admitted that 61 so-called independent councillors in Selangor are actually members of Pakatan Rakyat parties.

He said it was difficult for Pakatan to honour its promise of having a 25% quota for non-governmental organisation representatives and professionals without political affiliations.

“It is very difficult for these representatives and professionals to be appointed to the council. However, we still have 25% representatives from NGOs and professionals.

“We cannot stop NGO members or professional town planners from joining political parties as it is their right. We also cannot stop politicians from being members in NGOs.

“For example, Pasir Mas MP Datuk Ibrahim Ali is a politician, who is also the chairman of a Malay rights group and NGO, Perkasa. So, what’s the fuss?” he said

NGO reps in Selangor feel cheated over broken promise

Friday June 24, 2011

NGO reps in Selangor feel cheated over broken promise

By EDWARD R. HENRY
edward@thestar.com.my

PETALING JAYA: Municipal councillors representing non-governmental organisations in Selangor are outraged that there are now only 10 of them.

They feel cheated as they were promised a quarter of or 72 council seats after Pakatan Rakyat's victory in the state in the 2008 general election.

Instead, only 17 NGO councillors had been appointed.

Now, although Selangor boasts that there are 71 such councillors, only 10 of them are truly independent.

Coalition of Non-Governmental Organisations and Professional Appointed Councillors (Conpac) chairman Tan Jo Hann said the Pakatan state government had backtracked on its election promise to engage people through NGO representatives not aligned to political parties.

“We were promised 30% during the election campaign but after Pakatan came into power in Selangor, 25% of the 288 posts in 12 local councils were agreed upon.

“But the 25% or 72 NGO councillor quota never materialised,” he said, adding that the 72 councillors must be free of political influence.

He said that for the first term of 2008-2009, only 17 NGO representatives were appointed councillors, and the number was maintained in the 2009-2010 term.

“However, representation shrank to 10 councillors for the term running from 2010 to December 2011.

“The people can see for themselves that the percentage in the first two terms was 5.9%. Now, it is 3.5%, and not 25% as announced in state government brochures,” he said.

Tan, who is also a Subang Jaya municipal councillor, said the interests of ratepayers could not be served with the current representation if NGO councillors did not toe the line with political appointees in local councils.

He said political representatives might be more concerned with other “political matters” than issues that were considered more central, such as the people's livelihood.

“Our NGOs always feel we want the best for the people we represent, be it assessment rates or efficient services,” he added.

“I am sure the state government will retort that Conpac is not aware of other NGO appointees' in different councils. Our contention is that as long as the state does not come clean with the profile of these appointees', we will not know if they are political appointees using the NGO cover to pass off as NGO candidates,” he stressed.

Councillors, whose terms will expire in December, have begun to “campaign” because an assessment will be carried out for all 288 of them in August an indication of who will be axed.

In a brochure, Achievements Local Government, Research and Studies Standing Committee, distributed since January, state executive councillor Ronnie Liu claimed that 25% of councillors in the state were from NGOs.

Subang Jaya Municipal Council NGO representative K. Arumugam, who is also Suara Rakyat Malaysia chairman, said Selangor must be accountable and transparent in the appointment of NGO and professional councillors.

MPSJ councillor Dr Loi Kheng Min, who is also a Transparency International Malaysia exco member, said NGO representatives must not be affiliated to political parties.

“For the quota under NGOs and professionals, we must have six in each council, making up the total of 72 as agreed upon in 2008. Councillors must also come from neighbouring areas and not be parachuted' in from another place,” he said.

Selangor Government backtracks on appointment of independent councillors

Friday June 24, 2011

Selangor Government backtracks on appointment of independent councillors

By EDWARD R. HENRY
edward@thestar.com.my

PETALING JAYA: The Selangor Government boasts that 71 of the municipal councillors in the state are independent and represent NGOs but the actual figure is only 10.

According to the Coalition of Non-Governmental Organisations and Professional Appointed Councillors (Conpac), the other so-called independents are actually members of political parties that form the Selangor Pakatan Rakyat government.

This is the third time Pakatan had gone back on its election manifesto promise to allocate 30% of councillor positions to independent people.

State executive councillor in charge of local government Ronnie Liu dismissed the Conpac claim. But he admitted that 61 of them were members of political parties which make up the Pakatan government