Issue on inequalities involves mainly on incomes gaps and education oppurtunities. This subsequently compelled govt to provide subsidy to accomodate the basic needs.
Most educated young generations come from well to do family.In research conducted, there were correlations between parental income and academic success. Based on the research, child that parents have higher income tend to be more successful compare to child from lower income family.
The high income parents capable of providing extra educations like enroll their childrens to tuition classes , hire private tutor and afford sent them to good schools.
For that reasons , places for SBP and MRSM should be given to child from low income families. Instead what currently practice, about 80% of students entitled for SBP and MRSM came from high income families. Placement of MRSM and SBP should be given to low income families although they don't get straight A in UPSR and PT3.
As alarming statistic recorded by Research by Khazanah Research Institute, income gap between T20 and B40 in Malaysia already reach almost RM 8K.
On another issues, they was a clash between policy maker and academician in nation building. Research by academicians often become trivial or only for learning purpose or forum. This is true when looking at the gap of academician and policy maker .It less became accepted into policy which mainly endorsed by politician or law maker. Most of politician came from higher strata demography and less emphaty on what happen around them. Most of them are elitist and this create low tendency for them to really monitor to the groud of slump citizens. Reliable and effective policy came from the heedness of the voice of struggling people in economy so in will not turned to be half baked policies.
This issue boils up to the importance of giving oppurtunity for new generations to showcase their leadership capabilities. They have to prepare themself from now on to really look deep on low income, from suburb to remote rural populations and see their shortcomings first handedly.
Eventually these low income people must be subsidized with schemes like t BRIM or small planter incentives etc. For higher income, BRIM of RM1200 might be nothing but for them it's a lot for daily neccesities. For instance, the rubber tappers only earned around RM 400-500 a month if not in drought seasons. Just imagine how worth the subsidies that support them.
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