PAGOH: THE way cooperatives are being managed systematically and in an organised manner in Malaysia’s national schools has won wide praise.
Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said India, Thailand and Fiji, among others, were conducting studies on the system used by cooperatives in national schools so that they could apply them in their countries.
“The system used in our schools is on a par with those cooperatives managed by adults. For example, SMK Gombak Setia Berhad, which won the National Cooperative award in 2005 and 2008, was chosen to play host to delegates from international cooperatives such as the University Coop Community 2013 and ICA World Cooperative Organisation in 2011,” Muhyiddin said after opening the 2014 National School Cooperatives Day at SMK Lenga near here yesterday.
Since the establishment of school cooperatives some 46 years ago, he said, 96 per cent of secondary schools in the country now have their own cooperatives.
Muhyiddin later performed his Zohor prayer at the Masjid Jamek An Nur Kampung Jawa in Lenga, joined by about 300 people.
He told the congregation that he would be leaving for Mecca with his family on Sunday to perform his haj.
