Eighteen people gathered at the office of YB Datuk Devamany at the Prime Minister’s Office in Putrajaya on Sept 15, 2009 to hear Dr Kamal Sadiq highlight five gaps in Malaysian society which impacts development planning and Malaysian Indians. He drew these conclusions when he participated in the five working group discussions in August 2009. The five gaps are:-
The first is the identity gap in which Malaysian Indians are often only identified by just the Tamil section of the community. However there is a rich diversity of sub ethnic and religious groupings.
The second gap is the private sector gap as the Indian community is only focused in securing benefits from the public sector ignoring the private. Therefore there is a need to look at the private sector as wealth creation opportunities in the k-economy is in the private commercial sector
The third gap identified is the delivery gap. Although millions of ringgit is spent for the Indian community however the Indian community believes very little reaches them. Therefore a more inclusive policy must be developed.
The credibility gap is the fourth dimension. Here the community disbelieves all official data released. The fifth and final is the communication gap which fosters a climate of secrecy and breeds incompetence.
His views were well received and it further stimulated an interesting discussion. One of the participants Dr Sivamoorthy suggested an additional which he called the responsibility gap. By this he means that the State had a responsibility to all its tax payers and not just to selective groups.
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