{"id":660,"date":"2007-10-27T20:00:21","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/10\/27\/new-block-for-sjk-west-country-but-temple-status-unsure\/"},"modified":"2007-10-27T20:05:34","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T12:05:34","slug":"new-block-for-sjk-west-country-but-temple-status-unsure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/tamil-schools\/2007\/10\/27\/new-block-for-sjk-west-country-but-temple-status-unsure\/","title":{"rendered":"New block for SJK West Country, but temple status unsure"},"content":{"rendered":"

“However, the 0.4ha site for the Hindu temple has been changed to vacant land.”<\/p>\n

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RM330,000 new block for Tamil school<\/p>\n

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By ESTHER CHANDRAN<\/p>\n

SJK (T) West Country Timur, a partially government aided school, will soon be able to accommodate its students into proper classrooms as a new block is being built on the school grounds. The Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) chairman O. Kumaravelu said the new block cost RM330,000 to build. “A total of RM200,000 was do-nated by Datuk GN Chidapparam and RM40,000 was from Serdang MP Datuk Yap Pian Hon. “The remainder of the money was raised by the PTA through fund raising activities and from well wishers,” he said. The school, which has 365 pupils, currently has eight classrooms, principal C Jayaletchumy said.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Three of these classrooms are divided to accommodate two classes. Sometimes, the classes take place at the library or school canteen due to lack of classrooms. Last year, the school's enrolment was 307. Jayaletchumy said the new block would help accommodate the growing number of students. The project to build the new block began in March and is expected to be ready by mid Oct, Kumaravelu said. “There are six classrooms in the new block,” he said. The school at Section 5, West Country, Bangi is situated on the former West Country Estate grounds.  <\/p>\n

When the state government acquired the estate to develop the area into the newer Bangi, the Indian community were promised 1.6ha for the Tamil school, 1.2ha for a Hindu cemetery and 0.4ha for a Hindu temple. It has been 18-years since the acquisition but the land has not been gazetted. Yap said the Hulu Langat Land Office sent a letter to the Ministry of Education in September asking for the school land to be gazetted. He added that Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohamad Khir Toyo had agreed for the cemetery land to be gazetted as well. <\/p>\n

\n “However, the 0.4ha site for the Hindu temple has been changed to vacant land. “The Sri Maha Mariamman West Country Devotees Associa-tion will be applying to the land office for the 100-year old Sri Maha Mariamman West Country Temple to remain at its old site.'' <\/p>\n

\n He advised the temple committee, headed by Kumaravelu, to apply for the land to be gazetted. Yap also advised them to apply to the Culture, Arts and Heritage Ministry for the 100 year-old temple to be preserved as a heritage site because of its long history.  Kumaravelu said the temple was recently registered under the Registrar of Societies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“However, the 0.4ha site for the Hindu temple has been changed to vacant land.” RM330,000 new block for Tamil school source By ESTHER CHANDRAN SJK (T) West Country Timur, a partially government aided school, will soon be able to accommodate its students into proper classrooms as a new block is being built on the school […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[119,19,225,20,275],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","category-tamil-schools","tag-dap","tag-education","tag-politicians","tag-tamil-school","tag-temples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","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=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}