{"id":1917,"date":"2010-06-16T11:34:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T03:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2021-02-05T23:15:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T15:15:01","slug":"nurul-izzah-gives-nazri-a-dressing-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/nurul-izzah-gives-nazri-a-dressing-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurul Izzah gives Nazri a dressing-down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Free Malaysia Today<\/div>\n<div>TUE, 15 JUN 2010 16:14<\/div>\n<div>By G Vinod<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR: Mohd Nazri Aziz, the Minister in the Prime Minister&#8217;s Department, came in for brickbats for his callous statement on the lack of scholarships for high achievers.<\/p>\n<p>MP for Lembah Pantai Nurul Izzah Anwar took the minister to task, saying his statement goes to prove the government lacks understanding on how to develop the nation&#8217;s human capital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNazri said the government does not have enough funds but it has all the money to pay Apco (Worldwide) in the millions and also to build a new Parliament House for RM800 million,\u201d Nurul told FMT today.<\/p>\n<p>Nazri said yesterday that the Public Service Department (PSD) is facing difficulties providing scholarships for the growing pool of bright students emerging in the country as it lacked funds.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, he urged the public to accept the reality though it may be highly unpopular.<\/p>\n<p>Nurul Izzah said the public should be outraged by Nazri&#8217;s statement and a strong signal should be sent to the government to address this matter \u201cbecause the future of all our children is at stake\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freemalaysiatoday.com\/fmt-english\/politics\/pakatan-rakyat\/6814-nurul-izzah-gives-nazri-a-dressing-down\"><!--more--><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>PSD affected by budget slash<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a related development, Nurul Izzah said the lack of funds in the PSD is also affecting other areas as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNormally, all PSD trainees undergo an outbound school programmes (OBS) conducted by the department but because of a budget slash, a private contractor has been hired to handle the training.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not even sure of the contractor&#8217;s background,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>On May 31, Norhashimah Wahid, an administrative officer with the Finance Ministry, died while undergoing commando-style training organised by the National Institute of Public Administration.<\/p>\n<p>The course is said to be mandatory for all trainees who are taking up the Public Management Diploma course.<\/p>\n<p>Nurul Izzah also said the Finance Ministry should be held responsible for this matter, which has yet to provide a satisfactory answer over her death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a trainee who had lost her life due to their training but so far the party involved has not been brought to book,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free Malaysia Today TUE, 15 JUN 2010 16:14 By G Vinod KUALA LUMPUR: Mohd Nazri Aziz, the Minister in the Prime Minister&#8217;s Department, came in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[367,372,459,457,370,458],"class_list":{"0":"post-1917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-education","7":"tag-apco","8":"tag-kementerian-kewangan","9":"tag-nazri-aziz","10":"tag-psd","11":"tag-ptd","12":"tag-public-service-department"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1919,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions\/1919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nurulizzah.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}