{"id":6534,"date":"2010-05-04T10:03:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T02:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=6534"},"modified":"2010-05-04T10:03:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T02:03:49","slug":"sjkt-ladang-escot-gets-piped-water-after-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2010\/05\/04\/sjkt-ladang-escot-gets-piped-water-after-50-years\/","title":{"rendered":"SJKT Ladang Escot gets piped water after 50 years!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themalaysianinsider.com\/index.php\/malaysia\/62075-estate-tamil-school-gets-water-supply-after-50-years\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>happening<\/strong><\/a> in the most developed state in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting to note how the executive chairman of a utilities company says that its to reciprocate support given by people during the by-election. So, in other words, the utilities company works not based on public need, but on whim and fancies?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, good to see the project successful within a month, and at such big cost of RM600,000.<\/p>\n<p>With just 60 students, won&#8217;t be long before this school faces extinction or relocation to better populated areas.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">HULU SELANGOR, May 3 \u2014 After more than 50 years depending on spring water, Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Tamil (SJK) Ladang Escot here finally received piped water today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SJK Tamil Ladang Escot has an enrolment of 60 pupils, who are mainly children of oil palm estate workers, and 11 teaching staff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor (Syabas) executive chairman Tan Sri Rozali Ismail said the utility swung into action on learning of the predicament the school was facing during the just-concluded Hulu Selangor by-election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis is to reciprocate the support given by the people in Barisan Nasional\u2019s win in the by-election. As a government-linked company, we will support the government\u2019s aspirations,\u201d he told reporters after checking on the pipe-laying work to supply water to the school today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added that the job entailed a 1.5km pipeline with the overall cost of the water supply project to the school totalling RM600,000.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also present was the newly-elected MP for the constituency, P. Kamalanathan. \u2014 Bernama<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is happening in the most developed state in the country. Interesting to note how the executive chairman of a utilities company says that its to reciprocate support given by people during the by-election. So, in other words, the utilities company works not based on public need, but on whim and fancies? Anyway, good to [&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":[112,196,154,147,20],"class_list":["post-6534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","category-tamil-schools","tag-discrimination","tag-elections","tag-poverty","tag-selangor","tag-tamil-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534","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=6534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6535,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6534\/revisions\/6535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}