page_title: Subramaniam Sathasivam
section_title: Malaysian Indian Blueprint
hierarchical_section_title: Subramaniam Sathasivam / Ministerial career / The President of Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) / Malaysian Indian Blueprint
caption_attribution_description: English: Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC)
context_page_description: Datuk Seri Dr. S. Subramaniam s/o. K. V. Sathasivam is a Malaysian politician. He was the ninth President of the Malaysian Indian Congress, a major component party of Barisan Nasional coalition. He was the Minister of Health from May 2013 to May 2018; one of the two full Ministers representing the Malaysian Indian community in the Malaysian federal cabinet. Previously, he had served as the Minister of Human Resources from 2008 to 2013 and the Parliament Secretary of the same ministry from 2004 till 2008.
  Subramaniam had been the Member of Parliament representing Segamat parliamentary seat from 21 March 2004 to 9 May 2018. He was one of only three MIC candidates who managed to retain their parliamentary seats in the 2008 general elections. He reelected again in the 2013 general elections. In the 2018 election he lost and failed to retain his parliamentary seat.
context_section_description: As MIC president Dr S. Subramaniam has come up with the national blueprint for the Malaysian Indian community, initiated by the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. The brainchild of Prime Minister was the first action plan for Indians covering basic needs such as education, entrepreneurship, housing, employment, documentation, trade and social development. The implementation of this plan is under the 11th Malaysia Plan in which the government gives priority to the Malaysian Indian community, and provides various programmes to cater to their needs. Subramaniam has the idea of this as it was a new initiative to start implementing development plans for the Indian community, especially a new perspective and scope for houses of worship as an effort to bring about transformation to the Indian community. Blueprint focus on four aspects to improve the living standards of the community of Indians. The blueprint especially address the problems of 40 per cent of households (B-40 category) in the next 10 years from now (2017). Those are to identify the basic problems, realizing the potential of every child, improving livelihood and wealth, and social issues. Subramaniam also create a special unit known as the Unit for the Socio-Economic Development of the Indian Community, under the Prime Minister's Department, where it is solely responsible for monitoring and implementing the plan. The special unit will be staffed by civil servants as executors to record the success of the main essence of the plan every year. Another initiative of Subramaniam and Najib Tun Razak is to set up a fund with an allocation of RM500 million to assist small entrepreneurs and improve their economic status as well as identify and register the B40 group for programmes that are suitable for them.
  Blueprint seeks to engender the following outcomes for the Malaysian Indian community:
  Improved income and wealth levels, in both absolute and relative terms, particularly among the IB40
  Improved educational attainment, with no discernible inter-ethnic gaps
  An increased sense of inclusion into Malaysia's social fabric among the Malaysian Indian community
caption: Malaysian Indian Blueprint
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