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Site ‘not suitable’ for relocation of temple
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GEORGE TOWN: The relocation of the Dewa Sri Muniswarar temple, within the grounds where the construction of the Penang Hospital staff quarters is taking place, has hit a snag.
Datuk Keramat state assemblyman Jagdeep Singh Deo yesterday said that the proposed site by the Health Ministry for the relocation of the 130-year-old temple was not suitable.
This is because the proposed relocation site is located on a road reserve.
“We had a meeting with Penang Island Municipal Council (MPPP) president Datuk Zainal Rahim Seman on Apr 7, and he pointed out that the site proposed by the Health Ministry for the relocation of the temple is actually a road reserve.
“The temple committee has no qualms and is quite willing and happy to move, but now this has happened,” he said, adding the committee was now in a quandry because if they relocated, the temple would be deemed to have been built illegally.
Jagdeep said he would write an official letter to the ministry to inform them of the outcome of the meeting between the temple committee and MPPP. “We urge the ministry to forward their proposal for a site to relocate this temple,” Jagdeep said.
