Evidence Room
Every claim traceable to a source with stable IDs. 19 claims verified,5 unsupported. Conflicts disclosed, never silently reconciled.
Claims & Figures
Sources
Source Register
Malaysian Indian Blueprint 2017 (English edition)
Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) Report 2022 (Malaysia and States) / Household Income & Expenditure dashboard
Poverty in Malaysia 2022
Current Population Estimates 2026
Civil service ethnic composition as at 31 December 2024 (HRMIS)
I will 'personally oversee' affairs of Indian community, says Anwar
Govt raises MITRA allocation to RM150 million
528 Tamil schools nationwide with 78501 pupils
RM50mil maintenance funds for all 527 Tamil schools
Over 6700 SPM with 10As or more to get matriculation offers
Malaysian Indian Community Intervention Plan for MITRA
Beyond Tokenism: Why MITRA Cannot Substitute for Comprehensive National Reform
Pelan Tindakan Masyarakat India Malaysia (PTMI) portal
Federal Constitution of Malaysia — Articles 8 and 153
MADANI Indian Progression Guarantees (source draft 2)
A 6-Year Plan of Action for the Socio-Economic Educational and Political Upliftment of the Malaysian Indian Community (source draft 1)
Minimum Wages Order 2024 (RM1,700 national monthly minimum wage)
Sistem Saraan Perkhidmatan Awam (SSPA) salary schedules - Pekeliling Perkhidmatan Bilangan 1 Tahun 2024
Federal Constitution of Malaysia — current legislation portal
Citizenship services and constitutional application pathways
Personal Data Protection Act 2010 [Act 709] and 2024 amendment materials
Financial Procedure Act 1957 [Act 61]
Government Procurement Act 2026 [Act 882] — principal Act listing
Treasury Circular Portal and current circular directory
National Land Code 1965 [Act 56] — official overview and legislation access
Local Government Act 1976 [Act 171] — official legislation copy
Public Service Commission constitutional functions
Data Protection Impact Assessment Guideline 2026
Federal Expenditure Estimates 2026
Treasury Instructions (Amendment 2023) and current amendment notices
RMK13 development programme and project preparation guidelines
verified Claims (19)
IB40: approximately 227,600 Indian B40 households, 39% of all Indian households
Treatment: Adopt as a 2014-vintage baseline ONLY, explicitly labelled; must not be presented as a 2026 baseline
IB40 mean income RM2,672 per month
Treatment: Adopt as 2014 baseline only; superseded for current use by DOSM HIES 2022
Median Indian household income RM4,627 (HIS 2014)
Treatment: Replace with DOSM HIES 2022 for any current statement
Indian mean monthly household income RM8,950 (2022); national median RM6,338 (2022)
Treatment: Adopt as the current income reference
Absolute poverty incidence: Indian 5.4% (2022) up from 4.8% (2019); Bumiputera 7.9%; Chinese 1.9%
Treatment: Adopt and disclose prominently, including that Indian absolute poverty is below the Bumiputera rate
Malaysian Indians constitute approximately 6-7% of the national population
Treatment: Adopt as approximately 6.5% of the population (2024) on a declining trend from 6.6% (2023)
Indians hold only 3.7% of civil service positions (2024) against the MIB 7% target
Treatment: Adopt with the exclusion stated explicitly
MIB committed to at least 7% Indian participation at all grade levels within 10 years without compromising entry standards
Treatment: Adopt as the historic MIB target; do not re-adopt as a MIB 2.0 target without redesign
JPA states the ethnic composition gap is driven principally by very low non-Malay application volumes, while non-Malay applicants record the highest appointment success rates each year
Treatment: Adopt; this reframes the civil service intervention from selection bias to application supply
MIB pledged to resolve documentation of approximately 25000 undocumented and stateless Indians within five years
Treatment: Adopt as the MIB target; treat 25,000 as an ESTIMATE not a verified caseload
... and 9 more
unsupported Claims (5)
MIB provided a RM500 million five-year interest-free loan scheme of RM5,000 per household for 100,000 IB40 households
Treatment: REJECT the characterisation. Replace with the verified MIB instrument: a RM500 million PNB unit-trust SEED FUND providing matching booster units to IB40 savers
1.5 billion additional AS1M units were allocated to the Indian community, up to 30,000 units per investor
Treatment: REJECT and remove. Do not carry any AS1M unit figure into the proposal
RM220 million channelled through MITRA TEKUN and AIM in Budget 2026
Treatment: Do not use RM220 million as the Phase 1 funding envelope. Use only the verified MITRA RM150 million (2026) and disclose the remainder as unverified
Standing 3.72% Indian sub-quota of the 10% non-Bumiputera matriculation allocation yields roughly 1,116 seats per year
Treatment: Do not state a 3.72% sub-quota as an official instrument. State only the verified 90:10 framework and the disputed Indian seat count
Women frequently make the most important decisions affecting education household finances and children's wellbeing
Treatment: Qualify heavily or remove. Retain only the operational point that AIM PENN uptake data warrant gender-disaggregated targeting
disputed Claims (3)
MIB target: at least 50% of registered poor households show increased savings within 10 years
Treatment: Correct the horizon to FIVE years
Federal SJKT maintenance raised from RM30 million (2024) to RM50 million (2026)
Treatment: Adopt RM50 million for 2026 as verified; mark the prior-year base as disputed and state no growth multiple
Phase structure: Phase One Years 1-2 and Phase Two Years 3-6 at Tab 1, versus three phases 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 at Tab 10
Treatment: Resolve to three two-year phases
pending Claims (10)
MyDaftar (2011): 6,590 applications approved including 4,155 citizenships
Treatment: Retain only as an illustrative precedent with the source qualified; do not use as a delivery-rate benchmark
MITRA has absorbed approximately RM100m per year; RM98.9m spent in 2024 across 122,082 beneficiaries
Treatment: Use only the RM100m/year order of magnitude, which is corroborated; treat the RM98.9m and 122,082 outturn as unverified
PEMANDU found in 2024 that MITRA can only address 7 of 23 PTMI reforms
Treatment: Retain ONLY if attributed to the secondary source, phrased as reported, and never as a published PEMANDU finding
MACC arrested 16 MITRA-linked directors in 2021 over misappropriated grants
Treatment: Retain only in a governance-lessons context, attributed as reported, with no assertion of guilt; arrest is not conviction
1,537 Indian students were offered matriculation places in 2025
Treatment: Mark unverified; do not use as the baseline for a >=2000 offers target without MOE confirmation
Entrepreneur financing package of roughly RM300 million deployed in early 2025 comprising MITRA RM100m plus TEKUN SPUMI RM100m plus Bank Rakyat BRIEF-i RM100m
Treatment: Do not treat as a recurring baseline. Describe as a reported one-off package and exclude from the MIB 2.0 funding baseline
PRR Harmoni Madani Bestari Jaya (Feb 2025) resolved a 27-year estate workers housing case with subsidised units at RM45,000
Treatment: Retain as an illustrative precedent attributed as reported, and do not generalise a national unit cost from it
SJKP housing-credit guarantee raised from RM0.2 billion to RM1.9 billion in Budget 2026
Treatment: Do not attribute to the Indian community. A guarantee ceiling is not expenditure and is not community-specific
Budget 2026 funds the rebuild of SJKT Ladang Jeram within a roughly RM2 billion programme for 520 dilapidated schools including Tamil schools
Treatment: Treat the RM2 billion as an existing NATIONAL programme; MIB 2.0 may claim only the SJKT share which must be established with MOE
MITRA was moved to the National Unity Ministry in April 2020 and has since been returned to the Prime Minister's Department
Treatment: Retain the substance of institutional relocation without asserting exact dates unless confirmed