{"id":510,"date":"2007-08-22T00:30:15","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T16:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2007\/08\/22\/penang-exco-says-get-approval-to-build-temples\/"},"modified":"2007-08-22T00:30:15","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T16:30:15","slug":"penang-exco-says-get-approval-to-build-temples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2007\/08\/22\/penang-exco-says-get-approval-to-build-temples\/","title":{"rendered":"Penang EXCO says get approval to build temples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/metro\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/8\/18\/north\/18565565&amp;sec=north\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>By M. SIVANANTHA SHARMA <a href=\"mailto:north@thestar.com.my\">north@thestar.com.my<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>HINDU temple committees building temples on private land should get approval from the local council and the landowner. &nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>Penang Health, Welfare and Ca-ring Society Committee chairman P.K. Subbaiyah said they had to adhere to the local by-laws and guidelines when building new temples. &nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>He said there were many cases of temples being built without prior approval from local authorities and they had to be torn down, he said. &nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This creates unhappiness among the Hindu community,&#8221; Subbaiyah said at the Malaysia Hindu Sangam&#8217;s Butterworth Council 21st Thirumurai (Hindu religious hymns) Recital Contest recently.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>He said there were cases where temples were demolished and new ones built without the knowledge of the landowners.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>Subbaiyah, who is also the state MIC liaison committee vice-chairman and Bagan Dalam assemblyman, said MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu had instructed all Indian elected representatives nationwide to form a committee to look into the these matters. &nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>He added that these stubborn temple committees continued to disregard the advice and they come to seek MIC&#8217;s help when they were in trouble.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some even went a step further by making illegal renovations and expansions without approval,&#8221; he said.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p>Subbaiyah advised them to go through proper channels to avoid unnecessary problems.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>source By M. SIVANANTHA SHARMA north@thestar.com.my HINDU temple committees building temples on private land should get approval from the local council and the landowner. &nbsp; Penang Health, Welfare and Ca-ring Society Committee chairman P.K. Subbaiyah said they had to adhere to the local by-laws and guidelines when building new temples. &nbsp; He said there were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[24,143,225,275],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-mic","tag-penang","tag-politicians","tag-temples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","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=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}