The headmistress of SJKC Pandaraman in Klang has denied the allegation surrounding a water dispenser in the school.

According to Lim Siok Hui, the Singapore-based organisation which sponsored the dispenser promotes “positive vibrations” and has nothing to do with religion.

“There is no religious element involved,” Lim is quoted as saying in today's issue of Sin Chew Daily.

Lim also believed that the matter was raised by those who wanted to tarnish the Chinese primary school’s name.

The headmistress said she learned about the organisation from another teacher, and was informed that they could help inculcate positive energy in students to make them better achievers.

“I was not against this concept, and allowed the organisation to come to the school. They subsequently sponsored the drinking water.

“This was not religious, just a normal sponsorship,” she added.

Lim also revealed that an Education Ministry officer was sent to the school to check on the issue.

Yesterday, Klang MCA public complaints bureau disclosed that a complaint would be lodged against the headmistress.

Its deputy chief Tan Book Koon claimed the water had religious incantations recited over it, and is purported to make the students smarter and score better results in examinations.

Tan wants the Education Ministry to suspend the headmistress pending investigations, and warned that he would lodge a police report if this recurred.

Also present at the press conference with Tan was the school’s PTA representative Choo Kim San, who said the Singapore group first came to the school in March 2014.

“The Singapore group told the school’s three bodies (PTA, alumni association and its board of directors) that they want to give a talk on how to boost the students’ results and wanted us to come, so about 10 of us came.

“It is on that night when they sprinkled the water all around and said there was something wrong with the magnetic fields. They cheated us to come,” he said.

Choo claimed that the school board has told the headmistress again and again not to organise such events, but such urgings went unheeded.