Anwar gives glimpse into Pakatan's PTPTN policy



Opposition personality Anwar Ibrahim currently certified which Pakatan Rakyat has not hammered out a sum over a promise to waive a PTPTN students' loan, but offered a glimpse of how Pakatan would hoop it.

The PTPTN debt which amounts to RM43.6 billion, he said, could be created off inside of 3 years.

anwar ibrahim meets young professionals"If you allot a few tens of billions from a (country's) RM150 billion annual income each year, you should be means to transparent it," pronounced Anwar in a discourse with over 100 young professionals in Putrajaya.

The funds he said, would come from cuts to wasteful spending such as output to boost a country's image, as well as from huge profit-making GLCs such as Petronas.

"For family groups who make some-more than RM10,000 a month, do they need to compensate back (the loan)? These sum you need to work out.

"Have we? No. But a principle will be which a poor cannot be punished," he said.

The details, adds Anwar, is being worked upon by a committee.

When approached later however! , a op in front of personality declined to exhibit sum about when a process draft will be completed.

"But what you can do immediately is to look into a (issue with the) impounding of passports for those who had not (repaid) PTPTN. That is unreasonable," pronounced Anwar.
"We will pierce brazen formed upon a principle which preparation from primary to tertiary should be free," he added.

BN skirting giveaway education

Commenting upon Higher Education Minister Khaled Nordin's avowal which giveaway preparation will not eliminate a need for a tyro loan which a minister argued lonesome living costs, Anwar certified which a little "additional funding" may ! be requi red.

ptptn one stop centre kl sentral 260307 entranceHowever, he pronounced which this should not be used as an excuse to dress any efforts to exercise giveaway education.

Asked by eager participants if Pakatan-ruled Selangor would take a lead by implementing such a process first with a state-owned Universiti Industri Selangor (Unisel), Anwar pronounced this was a responsibility of a state government.

"We have proposed it to a Selangor government. Selangor has a slight corner (financially) but you do not want to emanate a precedent where other states will be burdened.

"The role of a state supervision is to be a backup to a sovereign gover! nment. we f there is not enough (funds), afterwards they can give one more help," he said.

NONEAn example, Anwar said, was state funding for vernacular schools in Selangor even yet it is under a office of a sovereign government.

Pakatan's devise to write off PTPTN loans as well as to exercise giveaway education, not partial of a Buku Jingga manifesto, has generated discuss upon a feasibility.

The BN supervision has discharged a opposition's plans as impractical.

Meanwhile tyro organisation Solidariti Mahasiswa Malaysia is planning arally upon April 14to direct for PTPTN's abolition.
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