The PSD of Malaysia is still harming the citizens of the

country even after over 51 years of independence.

The present policies and actions of the PSD which have not
changed at all since years and years back have only served
to add to the problem of racial polarisation in the nation.

The minority communities have always been shortchanged at

every corner and at every opportunity.

Fifty-one years have seen a lot of changes taking place in

the country but the PSD has totally failed to keep apace &
has been fully unable to feel the pulse of the nation at all.

The report on 14 May that four Ministers would meet the PM

over longstanding dissatisfactions concerning the manner by
which the PSD dished out scholarships every year to pro-
spective applicants reflects the lack of transparency and
zero fairplay that have long bugged the ways of the PSD.

Year after year, many bright students with extremely good

academic results have been shown the exit whenever they went
to apply for medical scholarships. Virtually all of them
were minority community applicants.

However, the government invariably trips over its own feet

every year, being forced to employ doctors from overseas,
many of whom are very unfamilar with local conditions and our
local people. One or two would usually get into some kind
of controversy in the course of their work. Remember the
one who examined the exit end of the alimentary canal of
the guy who alleged that he was sodomised by a certain
somebody ? His brief post-examination report generated a
lot of cloudy smoke soon afterward.

The dissatisfaction towards the PSD is not new or recent.

There have been a stream of complaints against the actions
of the PSD in denying scholarships to deserving applicants
year after year for many decades already. Their actions are
really tantamount to like cutting the nose to spite the face.

Bright students who are citizens of the country are denied

the chance to pursue their dreams but foreigners are given
the opportunity to fill vacant posts locally. And this has
been the norm for many many years now.

In a newspaper report dated 3 July 2001, one SPM top scorer

who was also placed inside the top 1 % of the world's ranking
for the NSW-HSC exam could not even obtain aid from the PSD
despite the fact that she was also the child of a single
parent. The story can be found on pg 3 of the July 3 2001
issue of The Star.

In another June 18 2002 issue of the same paper, pg 24, is

a letter consoling another bright young applicant who also
failed to obtain help from the PSD despite having scored
13 A1s in his SPM.
In yet another letter published in the same paper dated
June 14 2005 pg 29, the writer lamented on the PSD's bad
tendency to give out help to applicants who possessed
lower grades but rejected those with very outstanding
ones. The typical case of selective discrimination.

And in another one more issue, July 17 2008, pg N49, the

writer reflected on the racially-inclined policies of the
PSD whereby the minority communities were subjected to a
certain percentage quota with the result that many very
good applicants got rejected solely because of their skin
colour.

All this is ample proof of the racial polarisation policy

practised by the little Napoleons inside the PSD with no
regard at all to the official stand of the federal power.

Racial discrimination should be a thing of the past and

the federal authorites should now take all necessary steps
to force the PSD to toe the line. Bring transparency into
the PSD and do away with all unfair criteria found within
the selection process currently employed by the PSD.

The government cannot eat and keep its cake at the same
time. If the government wants a united and progressive
and harmonious society in Malaysia, then discriminatory
practices and policies must be discontinued. And that
includes shaking up the dinosaurs inside the PSD.

The PSD cannot be allowed to continue harming our young

citizens. We live only once and we are young only once.
The government must remember that. Act now.