CAREER

 

P.Logeswary @ Rhanee was born on 1^st January 1958 at Malaysia to a working class Hindu family.  Her hopes for higher education were dashed with the death of her father. After leaving school, in 1979 she worked as a clerk but then she got married at the age of 21, to supplement the family income she set up a small food stall. With time on her hands completed an MBA from Cambridge International University.

 

In 1984 she began following her uncle on his refuse collection rounds, determined to learn about the business from scratch. She was then an employee, tasked with collecting garbage house to house. After a year she got a small contract to cut a grass in the university of Malaya. She slowly and single-handedly built her business and mustered enough courage to bid for grass-cutting contacts. Encouraged by her success, she felt ready to bid for a contract from Propel and landed a lucrative maintenance contract from propel.  Soon, other contracts followed including a major construction project but business rival eventually succeeded in shortening the list.

 

In 1955 she wanted to do something new so she started a restaurant called Shree Rhanees. She was forced to close both her ventures, incurring huge losses along the way.

 

POLITICAL VIEWS

She began to give politics a thought as she so far had very limited experience in the rough and tumble of politics and almost no experience in the art of governance. This raises questions of how effective she can be as head of the ruling party of a complex nation like Malaysia with its myriad castes and religions and multitude of problems.

 

 

 

She is also  heading the following post:

 

Ø      MIC’s Central Working Committee early this year.

Ø      Branch Chairman for MIC Taman Kajang Raya Baru branch for 15 years.  

Ø      Ex-Councilor with the Kajang Municipal Council for four years

Ø      Committee Member for MIC Entrepreneur Development Bureau

Ø      Deputy Chairperson of MAICCI Women Entrepreneur Council

Ø      District Chairman for Kuala Lumpur & Selangor Indian Chamber of Commerce Industry (KLSICCI) Hulu Langat District

Ø       Chairman for Kabbadi Association of Hulu Langat District

 

TRIVIA

 

She had a passion for people and a heart for the Indian community:

 

Ø      To promote self-reliance and self-actualisation,

Ø      To identify leadership qualities in women and strengthen them to better serve their

Ø      communities. 

Ø      To make women alert to such injustices as poverty, discrimination and violence and to transform the power to worship into action for social change. 

Ø      To promote understanding and co-operation among different races, nationalities and     creeds.

Ø      To provide on request to women and their children suffering from mental, physical and sexual abuses, temporary refuge services that empower and enable them to determine their own future.

Ø      To offer emotional and social support to any women who request for it, resident or otherwise, and offer support and after-care.

Ø      To undertake and encourage research into any of the factors that contributes to the inequality and subordination of women.

Ø      To undertake and advocate with government and non-government organizations the eradication of factors that contributes to the inequality and subordination of women through law, policy and institutional reforms.

Ø      To create an awareness and better understanding among individuals, public and relevant agencies on the issues of violence against women and the underlying inequalities.