Up to 3,000 Indian students enrolled in higher education institutions will receive new laptops under the Peranti Mahasiswa programme, deputy entrepreneur development and cooperatives minister R Ramanan said today.
With a total allocation of RM7.55 million, the initiative by the Malaysian Indian Transformation Unit (Mitra) in collaboration with Yayasan Perkasa Siswa and Yayasan Didik Negara will benefit first-year students newly enrolled in higher education institutions.
“Back in 2023, we gave 525 Tamil schools refurbished laptops. And there was dissatisfaction, but this time, these are new laptops,” Ramanan said at an event at Menara Kembar Bank Rakyat in Brickfields here today.
He said the eligible students from B40 and M40 families had been identified by the education ministry, and the list of recipients would be published on Mitra’s official website to ensure transparency.
“They will receive these laptops at the latest by the end of the year,” he said.
At the event, Ramanan also announced several initiatives for the Indian community ahead of the upcoming Deepavali celebrations.
Among them is the “Kalvi Madani” tuition programme, which will be implemented in 200 selected Tamil schools.
The programme is modelled after the Madani tuition pilot project, which has proven to be successful in Terengganu and Kelantan.
