KUALA SELANGOR: Sixty Tamil schools will be rebuilt, many with new buildings, under the second phase of the Government’s Tamil school redevelopment programme, said MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu.

He said the schools would be redeveloped under the RM100mil fund allocated by the Government, adding that 72 schools had been redeveloped under the first phase.

He was speaking after visiting the partially-burnt Selangor River Tamil school in Kuala Selangor with Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk S.K. Devamany.

There are about 525 Tamil schools in the country, with more than 300 falling under the partially-aided government schools category.

On the Selangor River Tamil school, he said RM650,000 had been set aside by the Government for a new building with six to seven classrooms.

He also visited the Batang Berjuntai Tamil school in the Ijok constituency to follow-up on the rebuilding of the school, for which the Government had allocated RM1.5mil.

The fund was approved by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak when he visited the school during the Ijok by-election in 2007.

Samy Vellu said the MIC would continue to ensure the progress of Tamil schools with assistance from the Government.