Meeting with Ketua Setiausaha Negara di Putrajaya (merangkap Presiden UIAM)

To all my colleagues.. JPA updates and Mahallah issue

by Sharif Ahmad on Monday, June 6, 2011 at 9:28pm

Meeting with Ketua Setiausaha Negara di Putrajaya (merangkap Presiden UIAM)

Alhamdulilah 6/6/2011,pertama kali ke pejabat Perdana Menteri dan bilik mesyuarat menteri2 (ada body scan,police etc,very tight security). Jam 12 tgh hari metg bermula dgn ucapan Tan Sri Sidek Hasan, KSN merangkap prsiden UIAM jg head Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam(JPA) juga dengan kehadiran Deputy Rector UIAM Prof Nik Ahmad Kamal dan Dr Asiah merangkap Head Student Development Division dan semua SRC Kuantan Gombak dan wakil societies Gombak.

Disusuli ucapan dari Presiden SRC saudara Iqbal Abdul Wahab dan disambung oleh saya sendiri. Teksnya seperti dibawah :

1. Thank you to Tan Sri for inviting us here in Putroajaya, we are proud to be here and me myself i wish i'll be here in 10 years time.

2. Secondly again our appreciation for building a new mahallah at-tabari just in front of IMC. we really appreciate that BUT there are few major things that i think should be improved !

3. I have been to UiTM, UM , USIM and UPM and we have seen their college and mahallah and when we get back to our beloved campus we realized that our mahallah is not up to standard. What do i meant by that are we have a very poor ventilation systems, during daytime its hot like an owen and night time students cant sleep without undressing their shirt (male only) and personal table fan. We live in aplace like a dormitaries, with 6-8 people in a room, no privacy and not conducive at all for our learning process. During night time some of us have to sacrifice their study just to ensure light being turn off as no table lamp available.

4. In IM2 even worse, one dormitaries with 20 people live in such a crowded area with only 2 toilets with poor maintenance. This all can tarnish the good image and reputation of our beloved university IIUMK.

5. Next regarding JPA scholarship. We have been fighting this issue for at least 4 years. Its regarding JPA grade A and B rate. Its unfair to us as IIUMK students being graded in Grade B with another university HUSM, but other university got grade A in their scholarship grade.I have confirmed the rate with my colleagues in other universities :

§ UM critical courses : RM 7000 per semester, non-critical courses : RM 5100

§ USIM critical course : RM 6300

§ UPM critical course : RM 6300

§ UIAM : rm 5652.50 ??

The reasons why we want Grade A :

§ Poor facilities with same amount of fees ?? and lower JPA ??

§ Price of foods and everything in Kuantan is more or less as in KL or even more expensive (living cost)

§ Poor public transport, not like in Gombak having LRT, buses to go to town but we have to depend on our own trasnport and not even have public bus to bring us to town

§ In Kuantan everythings is expensive except ...

So again im 'begging' you to address this issue and help us in these 2 major problems.

Tan Sri : Actually i dont know much about the grading system, but i agree that cost of living in Kuantan is expensive. We will discuss this in our JPA metg and i will get to you back in one week time. Im a credible person, everything must have date line and whos in-charge of it. (dont worry, i was impressed with how he responded to the issue)

Tan Sri : Regarding the mahallah, can you do me a favor. My principle is like to answer questions and try to solve everything as fast as i can. You have my email right (given earlier to us), and can you email me the details of mahallah problems (i will emel with pictures i.A). The sooner the better and i will bring it to IIUm developmentn asap.

#above is the text at which i might had summarized some of them during the meeting

#the answers i quoted from Tan Sri is what i understand from the dialogue

minta sahabat2 kita sama-sama doa moga Allah mudahkan urusan kita dan mereka dan dimaqbulkan hajat2 kita

SHARIF AHMAD

VP1,

SRC IIUM 2010/2011