{"id":483,"date":"2007-08-09T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/08\/09\/assemblyman-rajoo-laments-dwindling-number-of-tamil-schools\/"},"modified":"2007-08-09T08:00:11","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T00:00:11","slug":"assemblyman-rajoo-laments-dwindling-number-of-tamil-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/08\/09\/assemblyman-rajoo-laments-dwindling-number-of-tamil-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Assemblyman Rajoo laments dwindling number of tamil schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>While other talk about relocating an under-populated school, we always agree to merger of schools. Of course the number of school will reduce la!!!<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Protect religion and culture, Tamil teachers told<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/8\/9\/nation\/18540048&amp;sec=nation\">source<\/a><\/div>\n<p>HINDU temples and Tamil schools reflect the character of the Indian community, who must safeguard this identity or lose it forever, said <i>Malaysia Nanban.<\/i>&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>Quoting Perak state executive councillor and Hutan Melintang state assemblyman Datuk G. Rajoo, the paper said the community must step up measures to protect their religion as well as their arts, culture and the Tamil language.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>Towards this end, there must be more activities to generate interest among the young, he told a gathering of retired Tamil teachers in the Lower Perak district at Teluk Intan on Tuesday.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>Rajoo lamented that the number of Tamil schools in Perak had dwindled in recent years from 154 previously to only 134 now, adding that parents had a duty to send their children to these schools to keep Tamil education alive.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While other talk about relocating an under-populated school, we always agree to merger of schools. Of course the number of school will reduce la!!! &nbsp; Protect religion and culture, Tamil teachers told source HINDU temples and Tamil schools reflect the character of the Indian community, who must safeguard this identity or lose it forever, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19,148,302,20,275],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-education","tag-perak","tag-religion","tag-tamil-school","tag-temples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}