Selangor Menteri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim said today the state government will continue to provide aid to Chinese and Tamil schools as well as the Sekolah Agama Rakyat (SAR) or public religious schools in Selangor next year.

The Chinese medium schools and SAR each recieved annual aid of RM6 million while the Tamil medium schools received RM4 million annually, he said after launching the Sekolah Menengah Cina Persendirian Chung Hua's 100th anniversary celebrations in Klang today.

However, Abdul Khalid said that for the 2012 state budget, there was 'hope' that the allocation for the three categories of schools would be raised but he declined to comment further on the form of state budget for next year to be tabled next week.

At the school's anniversary celebration, Abdul Khalid performed the groundbreaking ceremony for the school's multipurpose building costing RM5 million.

He said the state government and government-linked corporations would contribute RM500,000 for the construction of the building where the accumulated fund for its construction had exceeded RM3.5 million.

- Bernama