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Published: Thursday October 29, 2009 MYT 2:20:00 PM

MIC orders reevaluation of branches, revives presidential council


KUALA LUMPUR: MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu ordered a reevaluation of the party’s 3,600 branches in a bid to resuscitate the weaker ones, and revived the presidential council as part of the “transformation process.”

With 800 new branches awaiting approval from the Registrar of Societies, he said the reevaluation exercise would be done by “technical experts” using a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) starting early next year.

There had been complaints that some branches were not active and that branch leaders were not carrying out their duties diligently, he told reporters after chairing the party’s monthly Central Working Committee (CWC) meeting at the MIC headquarters here.

“There is a need to reconnect, reenergize and reinvent these branch leaders so that they will become closer to the people and resolve their problems through government intervention,” he said.

On the presidential council, Samy Vellu said it would be tasked to come up with a “masterplan” for the Indian community to be implemented before 2013.

It would meet twice a month and be chaired by him, with MIC deputy president Datuk G.Palanivel, Human Resources Minister and vice-president Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam, and all MIC elected representatives, state executive councillors and senators as members.

Samy Vellu said the council’s objective was to create an efficient approach in recording the problems of the community and to forward them to the Government for action through the party’s elected representatives. -- Bernama

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