Recently, the deputy education minister complained that many of the computer labs for schools were either not completed or were constructed so poorly that he felt that they would endanger students using them.

Looking through the list of contractors involved - supplied by the deputy minister - one wonders whether our authorities will ever learn or listen to the people? Time and time again there are complaints about contractors getting plum jobs and immediately subcontracting them to others.

One of those on the list of contractors awarded computer lab projects is Pintar Teknologi Bumiasia JV Sdn Bhd, owned by UN special envoy to Myanmar Razali Ismail.

If this is the way the government is set to help bumiputra contractors, then I'm afraid the National Economic Policy is doomed to failure (not that it is moving smoothly).

For the two distinguished gentlemen and others like him, just go for the big projects and make your millions there. Leave the small projects to us so that we too can make a living.

We bumiputra contractors are ever willing to work hard, but the government should not compel us to 'subsidise' those in high places, and then later blame us for their mistakes.