{"id":2246,"date":"2008-07-30T16:34:43","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T08:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2008\/07\/30\/sjkt-azad-land-allocation-cancelled-by-municipal-council\/"},"modified":"2008-07-30T16:35:20","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T08:35:20","slug":"sjkt-azad-land-allocation-cancelled-by-municipal-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2008\/07\/30\/sjkt-azad-land-allocation-cancelled-by-municipal-council\/","title":{"rendered":"SJKT Azad land allocation cancelled by municipal council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The report in Nanban, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/7\/30\/nation\/21951833&amp;sec=nation\">carried by<\/a> the Star says the Penang Municipal Council retracted the land it once allocated to the SJKT Azad Tamil school in Bagan Jermal, Penang. This retraction was done after the general elections, while the allocation date was not mentioned. We can safely assume that it was before elections.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the flow of events:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The school, which began operating in 1946, is presently \u201csquatting\u201d at the Penang Indian Association building and had submitted numerous applications to the state government for allocation of land so that new premises with proper facilities could be built. The school does not have enough classrooms. There is also no computer laboratory, science laboratory and library.<\/p>\n<p>Previous government under chief minister Tan Sri Koh Tsu Koon and former state executive councillor P.K. Subbaiyah had approved the land near a Hindu temple in the Waterfall area that was identified by the school parent-teacher association in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>The Penang Municipal Council, which owns the land, had also approved the allocation for the school.<\/p>\n<p>MIC president and former Works minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu had also obtained the necessary funds amounting to RM750,000 from the Federal Government to build the new school.<\/p>\n<p>The Penang Municipal Council cancelled the land allocated to the school after the recent general election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, what happened? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The report in Nanban, carried by the Star says the Penang Municipal Council retracted the land it once allocated to the SJKT Azad Tamil school in Bagan Jermal, Penang. This retraction was done after the general elections, while the allocation date was not mentioned. We can safely assume that it was before elections. Here&#8217;s the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[112,19,24,143,225,20],"class_list":["post-2246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","category-tamil-schools","tag-discrimination","tag-education","tag-mic","tag-penang","tag-politicians","tag-tamil-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246","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=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}