{"id":2184,"date":"2008-07-10T23:25:17","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T15:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/religion\/2008\/07\/10\/no-temple-demolishment-in-kl-guarantee\/"},"modified":"2008-07-10T23:25:26","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T15:25:26","slug":"no-temple-demolishment-in-kl-guarantee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/religion\/2008\/07\/10\/no-temple-demolishment-in-kl-guarantee\/","title":{"rendered":"No Temple Demolishment in KL Guarantee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">This is indeed great news! However, words can be easily spoken but action is harder to implement. Not sure if Saravanan&#8217;s words carry any weight with the DBKL. There&#8217;s a committee which includes MHS and MIC which meets DBKL people on issues involving temples. I wonder if the deputy minister is referring to this committee when he meant by new policy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/Current_News\/NST\/Thursday\/NewsBreak\/20080710180519\/Article\/index_html\" target=\"_blank\">According<\/a> to Saravanan, temples will be relocated instead of demolishment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We will offer an alternative piece of land to relocate temples affected by development<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He gave an example of an area in Klang Valley with eight temples located in a small lane, which were affected by development work.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We gave them a piece of land to relocate and it is up to the temples&#8217; authorities whether to build a large temple or maintain the eight at the new site<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Saravanan also said that DBKL will not encourage (not allow?) new temples to be set up.<\/p>\n<p>I hope they can start by settling the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/06\/23\/kampung-pandan-indian-settlement-gets-eviction-notice\/\">issue <\/a>at Kampung Pandan Indian Settlement.<\/p>\n<p>One can only wonder if this new policy is due to HINDRAF effect or MIC&#8217;s persuasion. No prizes for guessing the answer.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is indeed great news! However, words can be easily spoken but action is harder to implement. Not sure if Saravanan&#8217;s words carry any weight with the DBKL. There&#8217;s a committee which includes MHS and MIC which meets DBKL people on issues involving temples. I wonder if the deputy minister is referring to this committee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[24,275],"class_list":["post-2184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","category-religion","tag-mic","tag-temples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}