SJKT Safety and Learning Environment Programme
Physical condition and digital capability vary widely across the 528 SJKT, and no complete audited condition record exists
Programme Logic
Problem
Physical condition and digital capability vary widely across the 528 SJKT, and no complete audited condition record exists
Structural Cause
Historic under-capitalisation of national-type schools and a maintenance model that responds to applications rather than to audited condition
Intervention
Condition audit of every SJKT, a published prioritised remediation schedule, safety-critical works, digital learning facilities and a trained coordinator per school
Who & How
Target Group
All 528 national-type Tamil primary schools
Eligibility
All SJKT; remediation prioritised strictly by audited safety risk
Deliverables
Outputs
528 condition audits completed and published in Phase 1; prioritised remediation schedule published; safety-critical works completed; digital facility and trained coordinator in every SJKT
Outcomes
Every SJKT meets a defined safety and learning-environment standard
Key Performance Indicators
SJKT condition standard
Proportion of the 528 SJKT meeting the defined safety and learning-environment standard
Costing (Central Scenario)
Where these figures come from
Why this figure?· RM 133.1m over 6 yearsProvisional
- Method
- Asset-condition model: (schools x audit cost) + (share needing works x average works cost) + (schools x digital facility cost) + coordinator training
- Key inputs
- RM 25,000 — Audit RM25k per school (one-off); average safety-critical works RM450k for an assumed 30% of schools; digital facility RM85k per school; coordinator training RM3,500 x 2 per school
- Population
- 528 SJKT (All schools audited; remediation prioritised by audited risk)
- Benchmark
- Audit: 528 x RM25k = RM13.200m. Digital: 528 x RM85k = RM44.880m split across Phases 1-2. Remediation: 30% of 528 = 158.4 schools x RM450k = RM71.280m phased 30/40/30. Coordinator training: 528 x 2 x RM3,500 = RM3.696m. Total RM133.056m. existing_share REDUCED from 0.55 to 0.20 so that it reflects ONLY the verified RM50m SJKT maintenance line: per CNF-017 MIB 2.0 claims NO part of the national dilapidated-schools programme, and the earlier 0.55 contradicted that resolution. This raises the new-funding requirement, which is the conservative direction.
- Funding split
- existing 0.20 = the VERIFIED RM50m annual SJKT maintenance line only. Deliberately excludes the national dilapidated-schools programme per CNF-017. reallocated 0.10 = MITRA equipment grants; new 0.70 = audit, digital layer and incremental safety works. GATING on VAL-11.
- Source
- Internal estimate — no external source cited.
- Status
- Planning assumption pending validation· pending validation (VAL-11)
- Note
- Audit: 528 x RM25k = RM13.200m. Digital: 528 x RM85k = RM44.880m split across Phases 1-2. Remediation: 30% of 528 = 158.4 schools x RM450k = RM71.280m phased 30/40/30. Coordinator training: 528 x 2 x RM3,500 = RM3.696m. Total RM133.056m. existing_share REDUCED from 0.55 to 0.20 so that it reflects O
Delivery & Accountability
Lead Ministry
Ministry of Education
Accounting Officer
Secretary-General Ministry of Education
Supporting Agencies
Public Works Department; state education departments; school boards and PIBG; MITRA (equipment)
Mandate Basis
National-type schools are within the national education system and their capital and maintenance funding is an MOE function
Risks & Safeguards
fiscal
Existing-funding assumptions prove wrong - in particular the assumed 55% existing-funding share for SJKT works - and the true incremental requirement is materially higher than RM820 million
Safeguard
Every existing-funding share is declared in COSTING_ASSUMPTIONS.csv and flagged as provisional; MOE confirmation of the SJKT share of the national dilapidated-schools programme is a gating validation item (VAL-11); the model is rebuilt from assumptions by script so any correction reprices the whole portfolio in one step
procurement
Capital works under PRG-03 and PRG-04 are let without competitive tender or to related parties
Safeguard
All works follow standard Treasury procurement instructions with no exemption sought; award lists published; the prioritised remediation schedule is published in advance so departures from audited priority order are visible
reputational
Publishing disaggregated ethnic data on civil service composition, school condition or poverty produces adverse comparison and political friction
Safeguard
Publication is committed to in advance as a condition of the plan, so selective disclosure is not available; data are published in full national context rather than for one community alone; the reporting framework is described as a model extensible to any community
fiscal
RM246.456m of the portfolio is classed development expenditure (PRG-03, PRG-04, PRG-12). In Malaysian practice development expenditure is appropriated through the Malaysia Plan rolling-plan process administered by the Ministry of Economy, not by a Cabinet decision plus annual supply. A six-year plan commencing 2026 straddles two Malaysia Plans
Safeguard
The Ministry of Economy must be engaged as a co-lead on the development-expenditure component and the requirement entered into the applicable rolling plan; the fiscal framework decision (D5) is explicitly framed as approval in principle only; the Public Finance and Fiscal Responsibility Act 2023 compliance position must be established before any formal submission